Fact-Checking

AIs can make mistakes in their responses and that is why it's important to fact-check them.

Let's do some fact-checking practice. The example chat below shows an interaction between a human and an AI. Read the conversation and answer the question below.

Ways to fact-check AI responses

Sometimes you will know that information in an AI response is true, based on what you know about a topic, but you may have to fact-check some responses to be sure. Some ways to fact-check AI responses:

• Ask someone with expertise in the topic about the response.
• Look for parts of images that do not make sense, such as people with six fingers or extra arms and legs.
• In videos, look for weird things such as people with blurry faces or distorted body parts.
• Check generated code or maths solutions yourself, and compare your result with the AI's answer.
• Check the source of the information, especially if the AI provides links in its response.
• Look up the information using another source you trust, such as checking distances between cities on Google Maps.