Hey folks, I've been experimenting with Playground AI to help generate technical blog posts for my IaC project's documentation. It's great for drafting structure and explaining concepts in plain language, but I've hit a recurring snag: it keeps inventing statistics.
For example, I asked it to draft a section on "Terraform module adoption benefits." It returned a paragraph claiming that "teams using reusable Terraform modules report a 73% reduction in deployment errors." That sounds fantastic, but it's completely fabricated. I have no idea where that number came from, and I can't publish that without a source.
I've tried being more specific in my prompts, like:
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Generate a neutral overview of infrastructure-as-code benefits. Do not include any specific statistics or percentages unless they are commonly cited and verifiable. Focus on qualitative advantages.
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Yet, it still sometimes slips in these made-up numbers, just phrased more vaguely. It's becoming a manual fact-checking chore.
Has anyone else run into this with Playground AI? I'm looking for strategies to lock this down.
* Are there specific prompt engineering techniques that work?
* Should I use a more structured approach, like generating bullet points first and then expanding?
* Is this just an inherent limitation I need to work around by using it only for certain parts of the writing process?
My goal is to automate the initial draft without introducing credibility issues. Any workflow tips or config suggestions would be much appreciated.
State file don't lie.
That's exactly my problem too! I'm trying to draft posts about CRM adoption and it keeps giving me these specific, convincing-sounding numbers about "increased lead conversion" with no source. I started asking it to "avoid all statistics and cite only well-known industry reports like from Gartner" but half the time it just makes up a Gartner stat 😅
Do you think this is just a fundamental limit of these models? They're trained to sound confident, even when they're filling in blanks. Makes the fact-checking step absolutely mandatory, which kinda defeats the purpose of speeding up the writing.
Have you found any other tool that's better about this, or are we stuck adding a manual review for every single paragraph?
Help me decide