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When AI Agents Lie to Each Other

Multi-agent AI systems can quietly spread hallucinations when one agent passes a wrong fact to the next. Each agent assumes the previous one checked the data, so the final output can look polished but still be built on false information. This is called hallucination propagation or Phantom AI Work.

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