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AI fact-checking for generated content
How AI-generated text gets fact-checked at publish time — the three signals (entity overlap, claim verification, source corroboration), how Notifire combines them, and where the field is heading.
AI-generated content is now cheap enough that the question "can the model write this?" has been replaced by "can we trust what it wrote?". Hallucination — confidently inserting facts that don't exist — is the failure mode that blocks production deployment for any application where the output is read by a human who will act on it.
There is no single fact-check method that catches every hallucination. Modern fact-checking systems stack three complementary techniques that each fail in different ways: mechanical entity extraction (cheap, catches invented proper nouns and numbers), claim-level verification (LLM-call, catches invented relationships), and source corroboration (free signal, weights single-source claims as lower-confidence). Combined into a single confidence score, the stack catches the vast majority of hallucinations that single-method systems miss.
Notifire publishes its fact-check confidence score on every article and documents the methodology openly. This hub aggregates Notifire's coverage of the field — model-grading techniques, eval-framework releases, AI-content provenance standards, and the policy debates around AI-generated journalism — alongside a worked example of how the stack runs in production.
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Frequently asked questions
What is AI fact-checking?
A set of automated techniques that score how trustworthy an AI-generated piece of content is, by comparing it against the source material the AI was given. The three primary techniques are (1) entity overlap — every named entity in the output should appear in the source; (2) claim verification — each factual claim in the output should be supported by the source; and (3) source corroboration — claims supported by multiple independent sources score higher. Together they produce a 0-100 confidence score used to gate publication.
What is entity overlap fact-checking?
A mechanical pass that extracts every named entity (people, companies, products), CVE ID, version number, money amount, percentage, and large integer from both the source and the AI rewrite. Anything in the rewrite not in the source is flagged as potentially fabricated. Cheap (pure regex, no API call) and catches the easiest hallucinations to detect — fake CVE numbers, invented company names, wrong version numbers. False-positive rate is the main concern; a stopword list of generic English capitalised words filters out the noise.
What is claim-level verification?
An LLM call that takes both the source and the rewrite and asks the model to evaluate each factual claim in the rewrite against the source. Returns a count of verified vs. unsupported claims plus quotes of the unsupported ones. Catches relationship-level hallucinations ("X acquired Y" when the source said "X partnered with Y") that entity overlap misses. More expensive than entity overlap (~$0.0003 per article) but the strongest single signal in the stack.
Why does source corroboration matter?
Multi-source clusters — stories reported by two or more independent outlets — are much less likely to contain reporting errors that a fact-checker could miss. A claim that appears in three sources is dramatically more likely to be accurate than the same claim in one source. Corroboration weights are a free signal: no API call needed, just clustering on title/entity similarity at ingest time.
How does Notifire combine these signals into one score?
The composite is: claim verification × 0.5 + entity overlap × 0.3 + category fit × 0.2, then adjustments: +5 corroboration bonus if cluster has ≥3 sources, -10 hallucination penalty if any unsupported claims, -5 filler penalty if the rewrite has no entities at all. Articles with confidence < 40 are blocked from publish entirely; 40-59 route to a human review queue; ≥ 60 auto-publish. The score is visible on every article.
Can fact-checking catch every hallucination?
No. Mechanical fact-checking catches the categories it's designed for (fabricated entities, unsupported claims, source misalignment). It cannot catch "true-but-misleading" content where the AI assembles real facts into a misleading narrative. For that, you still need human editorial judgement — which is why Notifire routes mid-confidence articles to human review rather than auto-publishing them, and why cybersecurity items receive mandatory human review regardless of automated score.
What's the state of the art beyond Notifire's stack?
Three frontiers are active. (1) Embedding-drift detection — cosine similarity between source and rewrite catches paraphrasing drift that entity overlap misses. Expensive at scale due to embedding API costs. (2) Constitutional self-critique — having the same model that wrote the rewrite critique itself against a constitution; works for some hallucination types but suffers from same-model blind spots. (3) Cross-model verification — using a different model family (e.g. Claude verifying GPT output) for the claim-verification pass; reduces same-family failure correlation but doubles the cost.
How does AI content provenance fit in?
Fact-checking validates the content; provenance validates the source. Standards like C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) attach cryptographic signatures to media files at creation time, so a downstream reader can verify the chain of custody. Provenance is gaining adoption for images and video; for AI-generated text it's further behind because text is harder to fingerprint. Watermarking research (Google's SynthID for text, Meta's Stable Signature) is the closest current work.