🧠 Buckday: Hunting Down AI Hallucinations with Human Instinct and Machine Logic

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🧠 Buckday: Hunting Down AI Hallucinations with Human Instinct and Machine Logic

In the high-speed race of artificial intelligence, accuracy is everything. Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can write essays, draft emails, and even mimic experts—but every so often, they make things up. These “hallucinations” may sound convincing, but they can be dangerously wrong.

Enter Buckday—a novel AI evaluation framework that runs like a greyhound and thinks like a human. It’s not just another tool. It’s a live, layered hallucination risk detector that uses composite scoring, entity verification, and human consensus polling to call out falsehoods in AI-generated content before they slip through.

🎯 What Is Buckday?

Buckday is a human-AI collaboration system designed to detect, score, and visualize the risk of hallucination in AI output. It’s named for the metaphor of a giant rabbit (“the buck”) running wild across a race track, chased by digital greyhounds—automated verifiers and human reviewers working together to catch hallucinations in real time.

At its core, Buckday asks a simple question:

“How likely is it that this output is made up?”

🧪 How It Works

Buckday evaluates AI responses using six dimensions:

Dimension	What It Measures	Why It Matters
🧠 Token Uncertainty	The model’s own confidence in each word it chose	Low confidence = high risk
📚 Fact Verification	Whether key claims can be externally confirmed	Hallucinated facts are often unverifiable
🕵️ Named Entity Analysis	Are people, places, or orgs fabricated or rare?	Fake entities are a strong hallucination signal
🌀 Prompt Sensitivity	Do answers change with slight prompt changes?	Instability suggests unreliability
🧬 Semantic Novelty	Does the output combine unusual or rare concepts?	Hallucinations are often “original” in the worst way
👥 Human Consensus	What do real people say about its accuracy?	Ground truth comes from humans

Each signal is normalized into a [0–1] range and blended into a final hallucination risk score, giving you a single percentage that expresses the likelihood of fiction.

🖥️ Visual Dashboard

Buckday isn’t just smart—it’s interactive. Its Streamlit-powered dashboard lets users:

• Paste prompts and responses
• See real-time hallucination risk scores
• Explore detailed breakdowns per signal
• Estimate human verification time
• Submit human ratings to improve model grounding

🧠 Why Human Consensus Matters

Buckday is unique in combining automated analysis with human polling. It recognizes that some outputs walk the line—technically plausible, but contextually wrong. For those cases, it invites live reviewers to weigh in.

The result is a hybrid truth-checking network—fast enough for automation, grounded enough for expert review.

⚙️ Open and Extendable

Buckday is fully open-source and modular:

• Want to integrate with Discord, Slack, or Notion? Easy.
• Want to plug in your own retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) fact-checker? Done.
• Want to track hallucination frequency over time for a specific use case? Just add a logging layer.

🐇 Why “Buckday”?

In greyhound racing, a buck (a strong male hare) is often the mechanical lure that keeps the dogs running. In our case, the buck is metaphorical—the elusive hallucination we chase.

Every day is Buckday: a reminder that in the age of synthetic information, chasing truth is never optional.

🚀 Get Started

Try Buckday now by cloning the repo or launching the Streamlit UI:

git clone https://github.com/yourname/buckday

cd buckday

pip install -r requirements.txt

streamlit run app.py

📣 Final Thoughts

Buckday isn’t just a tool—it’s a strategy. A way to train ourselves (and our machines) to spot fictions before they take root. In the war on hallucinations, we need all the help we can get.

And sometimes, that help looks like a really fast greyhound chasing a really suspicious rabbit.

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