rajatrocks

My tool is not limiting anyone's reach or suppressing content.

It's giving people a tool to get more information, hopefully reputable, on a "fact".

I'd amend that to say "Fact checkers *can* be a tool to silence the voices they don't like".

The tool I built enables people to check a statement against the knowledge of Google Search and then decide for themselves.

Is Google Search 100% accurate? No, it's based on information from people, and people lie, manipulate, fudge and deceive. Information changes, facts change.

But I believe that it's a better alternative than blindly accepting or rejecting everything that you read.

misinformation = getting the facts wrong ex: The lawyer who cited nonexistent cases from ChatGPT in court

disinformation = intentionally misstating the facts in an effort to mislead ex: "January 6th was a day of peace and love"

I certainly could, but it feels like that would quickly derail on specifics and that you have a point that you want to make. I'd like to hear it.

Thank you for the feedback!

1) 100% agreed. I would never release a tool like this that just used an LLM. But this tool uses Grounding with Google Search. So in this case Gemini uses Google Search as a tool to try to verify whether the statement is true or not. If it cannot ground its response, it returns a message saying that it can't fact check the statement - it will never return an LLM's "opinion". If it can ground it, it returns an answer with citations and links to Google searches.

2) That may be true. But even I have found it useful as I'm reading comments on YouTube posts and in Facebook groups to verify whether what people are saying is true or not. Even people I agree with spread (intentionally or not) mis- and disinformation since it's so easy to do.

3) Per the first point, since it's grounded in Google Search it is giving very real-time responses. Try it with the headlines on any news site.

Thank you, I appreciate it!