retrieval augmentation

The late‑December experiment staged by long‑time Shell critic John Donovan transformed an old, bitter dispute into a live laboratory for how generative AI, archival persistence, and modern media law collide — and it did so in full public view by publishing both a satirical piece produced with AI...

The tidy, confident prose of mainstream AI assistants still hides a messy truth: when pressed with “trick” prompts—false premises, fake-citation tests, ambiguous images, or culturally loaded symbols—today’s top AIs often choose fluency over fidelity, producing answers that range from useful to...

Microsoft’s Copilot can speed through drafting, summarizing and spreadsheet work with alarming fluency — and that fluency is exactly why hallucinations (confidently wrong answers) are both dangerous and stubbornly persistent. Recent research from OpenAI shows hallucinations aren’t merely...

AI systems are getting more capable, but the stubborn problem of hallucinations — confidently delivered, plausible-sounding falsehoods — remains a clear operational and governance risk for organizations deploying large language models today. Background Hallucinations are not a fringe bug; they...