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Most teams weight LLM hallucination types by gut feel or not at all. Here's a framework for deriving severity weights that actually hold up.
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Most teams either treat every hallucination type as equally bad or assign severity by gut feel in a Slack thread. Both are made up. Real severity weights come from four things: downstream cost, reversibility, detectability, and frequency under load.