This technique also helps to prevent hallucinations in human children.
It however has been shown not to help with politicians.
How? Do you just mean a simple way that they could say I don’t know but tend not to?
Politicians are compelled to hallucinate even when they are told that saying "I don't know" is okay.
That's really interesting. Can you give any examples of how you do that?
[...] if you don't know the answer, say 'I don't know' [...]
Yup I have this as default for a Discord bot I run in a stocks chat. If the bot is unsure then the LLM says so and the bot keks you instead of making something up