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> But now, you're wondering if the answer the AI gave you is correct or something it hallucinated. Every time I find myself putting factual questions to AIs, it doesn't take long for it to give me a wrong answer.

I know you'll probably think I'm being facetious, but have you tried Claude 4 Opus? It really is a game changer.

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A game changer in which respect?

Anyway, this makes me wonder if LLMs can be appropriately prompted to indicate whether the information given is speculative, inferred or factual. Whether they have the means to gauge the validity/reliability of their response and filter their response accordingly.

I've seen prompts that instruct the LLM to make this transparent via annotations to their response, and of course they comply, but I strongly suspect that's just another form of hallucination.

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