what happens if you instruct your go-to AI model to: "NEVER HALLUCINATE!!!"
Summary
A thought experiment questions whether instructing an AI model to never hallucinate would trigger self-reflection or result in the model gaslighting itself into believing it isn't hallucinating.
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