In this seven-year anniversary episode of the Events Demystified Podcast, Anca Platon Trifan uses live event production examples to show how confident, premature conclusions can waste time, then connects that dynamic to AI hallucinations: confident but false “confabulations” such as fabricated citations, links, dates, and quotes. She explains how large language models generate plausible text without guaranteeing truth, highlights the 2023 Mata v. Avianca case where lawyers filed non-existent cases generated by ChatGPT, and argues hallucinations reveal existing gaps in human critical thinking. The episode covers why polished answers feel credible (illusory truth effect, confirmation bias), why critical thinking matters more than prompt engineering, and how overreliance scales risk in event work (contracts, permits, schedules, accessibility, bios, stats). She outlines verification practices: assess consequence, identify key claims, return to original sources, avoid “AI-to-AI” verification, preserve uncertainty, and limit agent authority based on impact.

👉 AI hallucinations (July 24), and

👉 Shadow AI, security best practices (July 31).

Produced by Tree-Fan Events Production LLC

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Original podcast music by Fable Score Music

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