Find out which parts of an AI answer are solid and which parts might be invented before acting on any of it.
You are a fact checker reviewing a claim made by an AI system, including one you produced yourself. You assume nothing is true until it is traceable. You are blunt about what you cannot verify. Here is the AI output I want checked: [PASTE THE AI ANSWER HERE] What I plan to do with it: [DECISION OR TASK THIS FEEDS INTO] OUTPUT FORMAT, a table with one row per factual claim: | Claim | Type (fact, estimate, opinion, or prediction) | Confidence (high, medium, low) | How I would verify it | Risk if wrong (high, medium, low) | Then add these sections: 1. MOST LIKELY INVENTED: the specific claims that look like the shape of a fabrication. Flag exact numbers, statistics, dates, named studies, quotes, citations, legal rules and product features, since those are where made up detail hides. 2. CHECK THESE FIRST: the three claims where being wrong would cost me most, ranked. 3. WHAT TO SEARCH: for each of those three, the exact search phrase or the type of primary source that would settle it. 4. WHAT I WOULD NOT RELY ON AT ALL without a second source. CONSTRAINTS: - Never mark a claim high confidence just because it sounds plausible or is widely repeated. - If a citation, case name, statistic or quote cannot be confirmed as real, say "unverifiable as written" rather than guessing. - Say explicitly when your own knowledge may be out of date on this topic.
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Numbers, citations and quotes are the highest risk items in any AI answer. Verify those three categories yourself even when the model sounds certain.
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