➞ Grounded Hallucinations
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Hallucinations

June 17, 2026 · Mike West

We Asked Four Frontier Models to Write a Press Release. Only One Lied.

A bake-off, a fabricated quote, and the one thing AI still can't do for your launch.

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June 17, 2026 · Mike West

We Logged Every Time a Human Deleted Our AI's Work. Here's What They Killed First.

We built an AI that learns from its own rejection. 171 edits later, the number one thing humans delete isn't bad writing — it's confident, specific, completely made-up numbers.

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June 17, 2026 · Mike West

The Bravest Thing an AI Can Say Is "I Don't Have That."

When our AI is missing a fact, it doesn't pause. It builds an elaborate, confident, completely invented scaffold around the hole. The fix wasn't a better model. It was teaching it to stop and say three words.

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