{"id":421,"date":"2025-09-09T05:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have-you-just-failed-to-iterate-it\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:14:32","slug":"is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have-you-just-failed-to-iterate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have-you-just-failed-to-iterate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In this example is the initial incorrect answers were not hallucinations: they correctly summarized online content that contained misinformation. The trick then is to encourage the model to look further, using &#8220;sorting prompts&#8221; like these:<\/p>\n<p>Facts and misconceptions and hype about what I posted<br \/>\nWhat is the evidence for and against the claim I posted<br \/>\nLook at the most recent information on this issue, summarize how it shifts the analysis (if at all), and provide link to the latest info<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/Sep\/7\/is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have-you-just-failed-to-iterate-it\/\">simonwillison.net\/2025\/Sep\/7\/is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have-you-just-failed-to-iterate-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this example is the initial incorrect answers were not hallucinations: they correctly summarized online content that contained misinformation. The trick then is to encourage the model to look further, using &#8220;sorting prompts&#8221; like these: Facts and misconceptions and hype about what I posted What is the evidence for and against the claim I posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}