gpt4-factchecking-accuracy-71-percent-below-human
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A 2023 study measured GPT-4's fact-checking accuracy at approximately 71%, below the accuracy of human fact-checkers at PolitiFact and Snopes
Summary
In a 2023 evaluation, GPT-4 got fact-checking roughly 71 percent correct, which trails what trained human fact-checkers at major outlets like PolitiFact and Snopes consistently achieve. For the system, this means automated verification through this model will miss or misjudge roughly three claims in ten that a human expert would catch, so it should be treated as a screening layer rather than a final authority on whether something is true or false.