# AI helper hallucinating a lot when explaining something

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-helper-hallucinating-a-lot-when-explaining-something/363253
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai, ai-helper, ai-custom-prompt
**Created:** [April 24, 2025, 6:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-helper-hallucinating-a-lot-when-explaining-something/363253 "2025-04-24T06:37:19Z")
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#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-helper-hallucinating-a-lot-when-explaining-something/363253/3 "2025-04-29T23:39:05Z")

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> [@Jagster](#):
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> So is my only option to move more expensive model, if I would stay with OpenAI?

We are only a few more weeks away from allowing you to wire helper to a dedicated persona, at that point you can experiment with prompt engineering to see if you can coax the cheaper models to behave as you want them to.

I would recommend though trying gemini flash 2.5, it is very cheap (and even has a free tier) it should outperform 4.1 mini.

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