Quick fixes AG-V001
Check it before you act on it
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Confident and correct look identical in a model's answer. Before a fact changes what you do, make it show its evidence — or look it up once.
The answer looks right but I'm not sure it's true? Here's the quick fix ↓ — the why sits right below it.
Quick fix: Check it before you act on it
Instead of Act on the number, the date, the citation, or the legal claim as given.
Try Which of those claims are you least certain about? For the deadline and the price: give me a source I can open, or say if you are inferring.
One question, before the answer leaves the chat and becomes an action.
Why this works
Models produce fluent, confident text whether or not the content is right; the training rewards a good guess over an admitted gap. So confidence carries no information, and the answers most worth checking are exactly the ones that look done: specific numbers, dates, names, citations, anything you would repeat to someone else. Asking for a source converts a judgement you cannot make into a lookup you can: a fabricated claim usually cannot produce a link that contains it.
When this applies
The moment an answer is about to leave the conversation: into an email, a decision, a payment, a filing, or your own memory.
Template
Before I use this: list the claims in your answer that depend on facts rather than reasoning. For each, give a checkable source or say "I may be inferring this."
Go deeper
The full method — including what to do in fields you cannot judge at all — is verifying output you are not qualified to check. For anything time-sensitive, checking freshness is its own pattern. The mechanics of source-backed answers are in web search and citations.
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- For current facts, make it search
For current facts, use a source-backed search.
- It only knows what you paste
Paste the thing you are asking about — it cannot see it otherwise.
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