I would have considered fact-checking to be one of the tasks GPT is least suited to, given its tendency to say made-up things just as confidently as true things. (And also because the questions it’s most likely to answer correctly will usually be ones we can easily look up by ourselves.)
edit: whichever very-high-karma user just gave this a strong disagreement vote, can you explain why? (Just as you voted, I was editing in the sentence ‘Am I missing something about GPT-4?’)
I would have considered fact-checking to be one of the tasks GPT is least suited to, given its tendency to say made-up things just as confidently as true things. (And also because the questions it’s most likely to answer correctly will usually be ones we can easily look up by ourselves.)
edit: whichever very-high-karma user just gave this a strong disagreement vote, can you explain why? (Just as you voted, I was editing in the sentence ‘Am I missing something about GPT-4?’)