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Using AI to fact-check your writing

Using AI to fact-check your writing

From the course: How to Research and Write Using Generative AI Tools

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Using AI to fact-check your writing

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- Sometimes you need to check that what an AI tool has written for you is correct. So why not ask an AI tool to help you? I mean, it may sound a bit ironic, but it's actually a really great idea. I recently used AI to help me plan a talk that I was doing, and then I used another AI tool to help me fact check the suggested academic studies. And I found that about a third of them were inaccurate. Thank goodness I checked. And for those of you going, well, can you trust the AI for fact checking? The answer is not entirely, which is why I get it to format its response to make it easier to check the fact checking. I never said this was going to be easy, but you know, if you're after the best results, you need to put in a bit of effort. So I'm going to share a prompt that I use to help me ensure that I'm not spreading untruths like your Uncle Bob does on Facebook. Uncle Bob. I've prepared some text here about the history of fountain pens that's got some deliberate inaccuracies in it, and I…

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