Walk back hallucinated citations
Choose a sequence of debugging decisions that reduces invented citations in factual AI outputs.
The failure A market scan looks credible because it has citations, but two citations do not support their claims and one source cannot be found. The risk is false authority: stakeholders trust the citation wrapper instead of checking support. Framework Separate source, support, and synthesis Debug citation failures by isolating where evidence entered the workflow and whether each claim has a supporting quote. Shortcut Ask for citations in the final answer only Auditable market scan Citations must be verified against claims, not merely attached to claims. Freeze Step 1 You find the unsupported citations 20 minutes before the scan is…
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