Hallucination Risk
How to reduce hallucination risk with evaluation, grounding, and operational controls.
Published:
Admin User
Updated:
published
Hallucination Risk
Hallucinations are a reliability and trust risk.
Reduce risk via grounding, test sets, rubrics, and strict acceptance criteria for high-risk tasks.
See also
Grounding & RAG Evaluation Rubrics Human-in-the-LoopFAQ
What causes hallucinations?
Missing grounding, ambiguous tasks, distribution shifts, or insufficient constraints/evaluation.
How do we reduce risk?
Grounding/RAG, strict rubrics, refusal rules, and human review for high-risk tasks.
How do we measure hallucination rate?
Use labeled test sets and rubric-based scoring for factual correctness.
When is HITL required?
For high-impact actions or when outputs affect compliance, money, or safety.
What’s the first improvement?
Add grounding for factual tasks and evaluate against a curated test set.