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The speaker reports that in-context interventions alone can reduce downstream hallucinations.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“um you know are we making stuff up are we saying factually true things um and everything that i say and everything the user says is some amount of evidence one way or the other and then if i say something incorrect then like i'm now taking this as evidence that oh we're making things up cool let's carry on um and in fact we show that like just doing these in context interventions is already enough to reduce for like downstream hallucinations”Play from 45:41Report a misattribution
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