Dan Martell - March 10, 2026


AI keeps lying to you？ Let me help.


Episode Stats


Length

43 seconds

Words per minute

217.80821

Word count

159

Sentence count

9


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about how to make your AI stop lying to you and do what it needs to do in order to be honest. AI lies to you all the time. They call it hallucination. Everything that you've said before influences its decision on what it's gonna tell you. So even though you ask it a straightforward question, it'll get it wrong. And the worst part is you tell it it was wrong. It goes, oh, I'm sorry, let me give you the real answer. Why didn't you give me the right answer from the beginning?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 AI lies to you all the time.
00:00:01.860 They call it hallucination.
00:00:03.100 Everything that you've said before
00:00:04.780 influences its decision on what it's gonna tell you.
00:00:07.300 So even though you ask it a straightforward question,
00:00:09.380 it'll get it wrong.
00:00:10.220 And the worst part is you tell it it was wrong.
00:00:12.700 It goes, oh, I'm sorry, let me give you the real answer.
00:00:15.100 Why didn't you give me the right answer
00:00:16.800 from the beginning?
00:00:17.540 What you need to do is build a system prompt
00:00:19.660 to avoid all this by making it check its own work.
00:00:23.020 And that's why I built this eight-part prompt
00:00:24.740 that keeps it honest.
00:00:26.440 I tell it to do things like,
00:00:27.880 be explicit when uncertain stop assuming context and way freaking more if you want to just comment
00:00:33.960 truth below and i'll send it right over to you that way you can copy and paste it into
00:00:37.560 any custom instruction and have it stop lying to you