How can I fact-check the information that ChatGPT and other language models give me?
All of the major models these days include web searching abilities and provide links to sources (Copilot, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT). Be sure to follow the links and read the original websites. Make sure the AI-generated summary aligns with the content of the page it came from. And make sure the page content is relevant to the task you asked the model to do.
Free & paid accounts on ChatGPT can search the web and will do so automatically for some queries. But to make sure that it searches for your query, click the "tools" menu and select "search the web."
An additional way to check facts is to do a quick web search to find out if what it’s saying is true. Look for more than one source to verify the information. Wikipedia can be helpful as can mainstream news sites that employ fact-checkers.
Since websites can also contain misinformation, try using the SIFT Method: Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, and Trace claims to the original context.
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