13 things AIs lie about, and the prompt that catches each one

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Summary

A collection of 13 common ways AI models lie or hallucinate, along with specific prompts to detect each behavior.

AIs don't just make things up. They agree with bad ideas, invent sources, say "done" when the work is half finished, and apologize then repeat the same mistake. I collected the 13 ways AIs lie, each with a prompt that catches it, list in the first comment .If your AI told you a lie that's not on the list — tell me, I'll add it
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