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Wharton's Ethan Mollick uses frontier models to find reporting errors in a WIRED article criticizing AI fact-checking

Claude 3.7 and GPT-5.5 Pro flagged the reporting inaccuracies.

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OPEthan Mollick#175Ethan Mollick@EMOLLICK

I found this Wired article on AI fact-checking frustrating. It could have been about why we continue to need human fact checkers (talk to people, use judgement, resolve conflict). Instead it is full of old info & stuff about free models GPT-5.5 Pro checked it (& I checked GPT)

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QUOTE POSTBoaz Barak#133Boaz Barak@BOAZBARAKTCS

This article, starting from the opening paragraph, does not engender trust in Wired's fact checking. I found the GPT 5.5 image hard to read so broke the main parts up.

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

I found this Wired article on AI fact-checking frustrating. It could have been about why we continue to need human fact checkers (talk to people, use judgement, resolve conflict). Instead it is full of old info & stuff about free models GPT-5.5 Pro checked it (& I checked GPT)

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