Mollick Faults Wired Article For Relying On Outdated AI Models
In fact, I would be sympathetic to the conclusion that we probably need even more fact checkers, and much more of their time can be freed up to do complex and interesting work by using AI for first-pass help.
Article: https://www.wired.com/story/fact-checking-ai/
Ethan Mollick@emollickWe still do need human fact-checkers! And AI is not perfect! But running a few experiments with the free version of ChatGPT and citing work with old models (pre-agentic systems) and without access to web search is not a good way to understand the nature of these systems & flaws.
#175Ethan Mollick@EMOLLICKI don't comment on every article that uses out-of-date measures on AI ability, but I felt (probably wrongly) that the article was a response to my viral tweet, so I felt I needed to say something!
Ethan Mollick@emollickGPT-5.5 Pro is a very solid fact checker. I can throw entire chapters at it and it will hunt down every key reference accurately. The only real annoyance is that it loves nuance, so returns a lot of “the general idea is right, but you are not taking into account tiny detail X”