Troubleshooting: Reducing hallucinations when summarizing research
Summaries occasionally invent citations or facts; seeking checklist-style prompt and verification steps using Claude or ChatGPT to validate extracted claims against source paragraphs.
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Checklist (copy-paste into the model):
1) Provide claim C and the exact source paragraph P.
2) Prompt: “Label: Supported / Partially supported / Contradicted / Not present. Quote the exact sentence(s) from P that support your label and give confidence 0–1.”
3) Ask for character offsets or sentence indices of the quote.
4) Verification: confirm the quoted text matches P exactly; flag any extra citations/facts as hallucinations.
Use Claude for long contexts or ChatGPT for quick checks.
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