Guide

LLM Hallucinations: Understand and Tackle AI's Most Persistent Quirk

Lakera · lakera.ai

The clearest end-to-end explainer of why hallucinations happen and the layered defences that work.

The question it answers

  1. How do I stop my AI feature from making things up in front of customers?

Read with it

  1. Separates factuality from faithfulness errors and matches each to its fix. getzep.com Article How to Reduce LLM Hallucinations Zep
  2. A prioritized playbook: grounding and abstention first, verification where errors are expensive. futureagi.com Article How to Reduce LLM Hallucinations: 7 Proven Strategies Future AGI
  3. Production-focused checklist including the stat that layered guardrails cut hallucination rates 71-89%. airbyte.com Article 8 Ways to Prevent LLM Hallucinations in Production Airbyte
  4. Validate and auto-retry model outputs against a schema; 6M downloads a month for a reason. github.com Tool Instructor: structured outputs for LLMs Jason Liu (567 Labs)
  5. The Instructor creator on why validation beats vibes for reliability. latent.space Podcast High Agency Pydantic > VC Backed Frameworks, with Jason Liu Latent Space
  6. Schema-guaranteed responses kill an entire category of made-up fields and invalid values. developers.openai.com Guide Structured model outputs (OpenAI docs) OpenAI
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