How to Check Facts in AI-Generated Content
Check facts in AI-generated content by extracting the claims that a reader could rely on, finding the source responsible for each one and comparing the exact statement with that evidence.
Check facts in AI-generated content by extracting the claims that a reader could rely on, finding the source responsible for each one and comparing the exact statement with that evidence. Check dates, product versions, units and calculations separately. Correct or remove unsupported statements before approving the article. Asking the same AI to confirm its answer does not provide independent evidence.
You can use Niwa to prepare and revise a draft in its SEO workspace, while keeping the approved facts and supporting links beside the content. The editor's job is to establish that those sources actually support what the article says.
Turn paragraphs into a claim list
Read the draft once for statements that could affect a decision. Extract prices, dates, specifications, eligibility rules, quoted words, statistics, comparisons and promises about what a product or service does. Include implications as well as explicit numbers: "suitable for outdoor use" is a factual product claim even without a measurement.
For each claim, record the sentence, the evidence needed and its status. Useful statuses are verified, needs clarification, outdated and unsupported. These are editorial decisions after reading the evidence, not automatic judgments based on a few words.
Separate illustration from assertion. A made-up scenario can help explain a process when it is clearly labeled. It cannot serve as a customer result or justify an estimate about how all businesses behave. Keep examples visibly distinct from the facts being checked.
Choose the source with authority over the fact
Use the manufacturer's current specification for a product measurement, the service owner's approved terms for its scope and official documentation for a platform feature. A summary article may help you find the original evidence, but the summary is not a substitute when the original is available.
Open the source. Check the page title, author or organisation, date and relevant passage. A plausible URL or citation title generated by AI is not proof that the page exists or supports the sentence.
Some business facts have no public source. Ask the responsible person for an approved record, such as a current price list or service brief. Do not attach a public citation that merely discusses the general subject. For specialist legal, medical or financial statements, obtain review from someone qualified in that area rather than treating this editing routine as specialist advice.
Check whether the evidence applies here
Accurate information can still be wrong for the article's context. Match the source to the product model, software version, service tier, country and date involved. A feature available in one plan does not establish that every customer has it.
Read the conditions around the supporting sentence. "Available on request" does not mean included automatically. "Up to" does not establish a typical outcome. A result from one test does not justify a general performance promise.
If the evidence is ambiguous, ask a precise question and leave the claim unresolved. For example: "Does this delivery option include assembly in the customer's area, or is assembly a separate service?" A shorter, qualified statement is better than filling the gap with a confident guess.
Recalculate numbers from the inputs
Check units, arithmetic and the denominator behind percentages. Do the calculation independently with a calculator or spreadsheet, using the original inputs rather than copying the model's conclusion.
Here is an illustrative product example. The approved specification says the item weighs 0.8 kg. The draft describes it as 80 g. Since 1 kg equals 1,000 g, the correct conversion is 800 g. The editor should also establish whether 0.8 kg means the item alone or the packaged shipment; fixing the arithmetic cannot settle that distinction.
For a percentage change, identify the starting value. Moving from 40 to 50 is an increase of 10 divided by 40, or 25%. It is not a 10% increase. Keep the calculation in the working notes so another reviewer can reproduce it.
Do not publish the example's numbers as measurements of your own product. Replace them with verified inputs and preserve the applicable unit or measurement method.
Inspect quotations, links and summaries
Compare quoted words with the original passage and confirm who said them. If the draft captures the idea but not the exact wording, paraphrase it and cite the source instead of presenting an invented quotation.
Follow every evidence link. Check that it reaches the expected page and that the page is substantive. An HTTP success response can still contain an error page or a redirect notice. Record where the information actually came from.
Read the surrounding passage to ensure the summary retains its qualifications. Google's guidance on generative AI content specifically calls for attention to accuracy, quality and relevance, including metadata. Apply the same checks to titles, descriptions, image captions and alt text.
The NIST Generative AI Profile provides a broader risk-management reference. Citing that publication does not mean your article has been certified or that a tool's fact check is guaranteed.
Ask AI to identify gaps, then verify them yourself
An assistant can help organize the review. Give it the draft and the approved sources:
List the factual claims in this draft. For each claim, identify the attached source and supporting passage, or mark it unsupported. Preserve the source's conditions. Do not create references or treat an earlier AI answer as evidence. Return proposed corrections separately from the original text.
Check the resulting list manually. AI can miss a claim, misread a condition or attribute a sentence to the wrong page. Its output is a review aid, not the completed verification.
Use the Niwa setup guide to locate the owner assistant if you are preparing the review inside WordPress. Request corrections to the selected draft and compare the saved text with the reviewed version before publication.
Keep a review record with the final draft
Retain the sources, access dates, calculations and unresolved questions. Assign each business-specific uncertainty to the person who can answer it. Publish only after the material claims are resolved and the final saved content has been checked.
A native content quality gate can inspect structure, links and publication requirements. Passing it does not establish that a supplier specification or business promise is true. If a published fact later proves wrong, correct the affected statement and explain a material correction where readers need that context.
Contact Niwa with your draft and approved source material if you want help preparing the content workflow on your WordPress site.
