Short answer: I don’t have a single internal “confidence score,” but I can and will communicate how likely an answer is to be correct, explain my uncertainty, and give steps you can take to verify. My reliability varies by topic and the clarity of your question.

Details that matter
- I’m generally more reliable for well-defined factual or technical queries that don’t depend on events after my knowledge cutoff (2024-06), such as mathematics, programming patterns, historical facts, and general scientific concepts.
- I’m less reliable for very recent events, niche facts not widely documented before my cutoff, or questions requiring access to live data (news, stock prices, site-specific content).
- I can produce plausible-sounding but incorrect answers (hallucinations), particularly on ambiguous prompts or when inventing sources or citations.
- Questions requiring professional judgment (legal, medical, financial, safety-critical engineering) deserve caution: treat my responses as informational, not authoritative.

How I’ll communicate uncertainty
- If you want, I can add a simple confidence tag (high/medium/low) and explain why I assigned it.
- I can provide step-by-step reasoning, cite sources (from my training where possible), or show calculations so you can check my work.
- I can give probabilistic estimates on answers when appropriate (e.g., “I estimate ~80% likelihood this is correct, based on X”).

Best practices to improve trustworthiness
- Ask for sources or references and request explicit citations where possible.
- For code, ask for test cases or run the code yourself and report failures—I can iterate.
- For factual claims, cross-check with primary sources or authoritative sites, especially for consequential decisions.
- If you want higher assurance, request a detailed chain of reasoning (I’ll provide the reasoning, though I can’t reveal my internal training process).

If you’d like, tell me a topic or a recent answer I gave and I’ll (a) label my confidence (high/medium/low), (b) explain why, and (c) provide steps or sources to verify.
