* You can reduce risk of hallucinations with better prompting - sure
* You can eliminate risk of hallucinations with better prompting - nope
"Avoid" is that intersection where audience will interpret it the way they choose to and then point as their justification. I'm assuming it's not intentional but it couldn't be better picked if it were :-/
Essentially a motte-and-bailey. "mitigate" is the same. Can be used when the risk is only partially eliminated but you can be lucky (depending on perspective) the reader will believe the issue is fully solved by that mitigation.
another prolific example of this fallacy, often found in the blockchain space, is the equivocation of statistical probability, with provable/computational determinism -- hash(x) != x, no matter how likely or unlikely a hash collision may be, but try explaining this to some folks and it's like talking to a wall
A M&B is a medieval castle layout. Those bloody Norsemen immigrants who duffed up those bloody Saxon immigrants, wot duffed up the native Britons, built quite a few of those things. Something, something, Frisians, Romans and other foreigners. Everyone is a foreigner or immigrant in Britain apart from us locals, who have been here since the big bang.
Essentially: you advance a claim that you hope will be interpreted by the audience in a "wide" way (avoid = eliminate) even though this could be difficult to defend. On the rare occasions some would call you on it, the claim is such it allows you to retreat to an interpretation that is more easily defensible ("with the word 'avoid' I only meant it reduces the risk, not eliminates").
* You can reduce risk of hallucinations with better prompting - sure
* You can eliminate risk of hallucinations with better prompting - nope
"Avoid" is that intersection where audience will interpret it the way they choose to and then point as their justification. I'm assuming it's not intentional but it couldn't be better picked if it were :-/