Guides

A practical guide to reducing AI hallucinations in customer support chatbots

When I started evaluating chatbots for customer support teams, one thing quickly became clear: hallucinations — confident but incorrect or fabricated responses from an AI — are the single biggest blocker to deploying models at scale. I’ve spent months testing retrieval-augmented pipelines, fine-tuning assistants, and watching support agents roll their eyes at answers that sounded plausible but were flat-out wrong. In this guide I’ll...

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What to look for when buying a privacy-focused Android phone on a budget

I’ve spent a lot of time testing phones, flashing ROMs and poking around settings to understand what really matters when you want privacy without paying flagship prices. If you’re trying to buy a privacy‑focused Android phone on a budget, you’ll quickly find that “privacy” can mean different things depending on whether you care most about software updates, limiting Google’s reach, hardware protections, or just reducing the number...

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