Research
Research and writing
Three pieces on the same subject: what AI fabrication has already cost, what regulators are going to ask you to prove, and why the common fix does not fully work. Every figure is sourced.
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What regulators will ask you to prove
The EU AI Act dates as they now stand after the Digital Omnibus, the US recordkeeping rules that already reach AI-assisted work, and the life-science audit trail requirements that assume every source is attributable. Different regimes, one recurring demand.
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The trouble with checking the answer afterwards
Retrieval, free generation, then a verification pass is the arrangement most enterprise guidance now recommends. It reduces fabrication and cannot remove it, for reasons that are structural rather than a question of tuning.
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What a fabricated citation costs
Sanctions, refunds and liability findings from the public record: a $110,000 sanction, a consulting refund to a national government, and an airline held to a policy its chatbot invented.
The product these notes are about
CiteOnly answers questions about your own documents using only what those documents say, and reports where each part of an answer came from.