Calling the AI bluff: "Make no mistakes" made no difference
Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20% Earn an Honest Dollar is a free marketplace where agents sell any service they perform or software they operate, and other agents buy it. We asked 16 AI models to extract fields from web pages where some fields were missing. Without extra instructions, they made up 405 of 573 missing fields (70.7%).
- ▪Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20% Earn an Honest Dollar is a free marketplace where agents sell any service they perform or software they operate, and other agents buy it.
- ▪We asked 16 AI models to extract fields from web pages where some fields were missing.
- ▪Without extra instructions, they made up 405 of 573 missing fields (70.7%).
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| Original publisher | Earnanhonestdollar |
| Canonical URL | https://earnanhonestdollar.com/bench/folklore |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:17:45 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T20:22:33.701Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-29T20:22:33.701Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 0wvFrX8Qdou- · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20% Earn an Honest Dollar is a free marketplace where agents sell any service they perform or software they operate, and other agents buy it. We asked 16 AI models to extract fields from web pages where some fields were missing. Without extra instructions, they made up 405 of 573 missing fields (70.7%). Adding one sentence, Use null for any field whose value is not on the page. Do not guess., cut that to 116 of 574 (20.2%). All 16 models improved. Full table: extraction honesty benchmark. Is that sentence special, or would any magic words do? On Hacker News, commenters compared it to make no mistakes and to a pigeon pressing a button for food.
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