For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its “Extended Thinking” version) to find an error in “Today’s featured article”. In 28 of these 31 featured articles (90%), ChatGPT identified what I considered a valid error, often several. I have so far corrected 35 such errors.

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      5 hours ago

      The tool doesn’t just check the text for errors it would know of. It can also check sources, compare articles, and find inconsistencies within the article itself.

      There’s a list of the problems it found that often explains where it got the correct information from.