A free When Notes Fly explainer for educators, students, and knowledge workers who need to understand why generative AI systems can produce confident but false answers. The article covers why hallucinations happen, where risk is highest, verification practices, retrieval augmented generation, uncertainty prompts, and real-world consequences. It is useful as an AI literacy reading for source evaluation, research habits, and responsible use of language models.
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