Why your support bot hallucinates, and how to fix it
When a support bot tells a customer something false, the instinct is to blame the model and start adjusting the prompt. Sometimes that is the problem. More often, in our experience, the bot is faithfully summarizing content that was missing, stale, contradictory or impossible to retrieve, and the model is the messenger. This guide is a diagnosis method: how to trace each bad answer to its cause, and which fix belongs to which cause.