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Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back

by Tanmai Gopal promptql.io published 2025-08-18

The failure mode that stalls “AI for data” efforts or "AI on my APIs" efforts isn’t psychedelic hallucination—it’s confident inaccuracy: plausible answers that are wrong in subtle and costly ways.

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