Factful
AI
fact checking
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222points
152comments
#346of 3,515 in 2024
Top 10%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
19 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 31 critical, out of 82 comments about the project. Thread score -0.19.
Idea: 2 for, 16 againstExecution: 1 for, 11 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Impressive work for a 16-year-old
From 3 comments
This is awesome! Very very good work. Simple, friendly product design and I love that it corrects both facts and grammar. Not only is this an impressive use of LLMs, it's highly…
_akhe on HNDespite what criticisms you may receive, you put something into existence. You may not have gotten everything right but, it is admirable. Congratulations. At your age, many of…
vxxzy on HNThis speaks more as a testament to your web developer skills (at 16!) than your actual value as an... AI startup. Keep it up, your career should be rosy.
SPBS on HN
Simple, friendly design
From 1 comment
This is awesome! Very very good work. Simple, friendly product design and I love that it corrects both facts and grammar. Not only is this an impressive use of LLMs, it's highly…
_akhe on HN
Objections
LLMs are unreliable at determining facts
From 3 comments
Andrew, you and your friends should be proud. It's really encouraging to see people, especially in your generation, thinking seriously about the problem of misinformation. There…
dweinus on HN> I'm a high school student with a passion for tackling misinformation online. Inspired by the need for more reliable content verification tools, I decided to create Factful.…
SrslyJosh on HNHow incredibly cool to see young people that are interested and capable of building things! I have a couple of rhetorical questions. How do you expect a language model to see…
LivenessModel on HN
Suggestions are verbose or wrong; fact checks often miss the point
From 3 comments
Is there more where we can read about how it works? I tried testing it with the sentence “Toledo is the largest city in Ohio” and it’s suggestions were to replace this with…
kemotep on HNSo I put in: > Green Party leader Justin Trudeau was ejected from Canada's House of Commons after fiery exchanges with Prime Minister Jagmeet Singh. Mr Trudeau's removal came…
throwaway918274 on HNI'm having a lot of fun with this! Prompt: > Factful.io uses a hand-coded natural language parser to determine factual accuracy to within a tolerance of 12.3 standard units of…
itishappy on HN
Site errors such as a global rate limit and dev server build issue
From 2 comments
I typed "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", clicked "Check Everything", I get a brief spinner, and ``` [plugin:vite:import-analysis] Failed to parse source for import…
diabeetusman on HNAwesome work! I tried it on a couple of pretty confusing examples and it worked out great. However you might want to build with production mode enabled, since your current build…
omneity on HN
Unclear how factuality is determined and who decides truth
From 2 comments
How do you evaluate “factuality” without knowing all the facts, though? That’s the downfall of all such services - eventually (or even immediately) they begin to just push their…
ein0p on HNIf Google and Meta aren't capable of providing the truth, what makes you think you can? Most "truths" online are just constructed lies or biased information. Wouldn't you just be…
seoulmetro on HN
Requests
Public API
From 2 comments
Cool idea... do you offer an API?
theGnuMe on HNThis is awesome! Very very good work. Simple, friendly product design and I love that it corrects both facts and grammar. Not only is this an impressive use of LLMs, it's highly…
_akhe on HN
Show full corrected sentence with one-click change
From 1 comment
Impressive! Really well done, Andrew. One piece of feedback. I used the sample text and it gave me a sentence about a gold fish's memory and when I checked it, it had three…
thinkingtoilet on HN
Clearer homepage explaining the product
From 1 comment
Cool stuff, only feedback I have is that it could be a bit clearer on the homepage what your product does - I only found out when playing around (I didn't read your post before…
dutchbrit on HN
Questions
How does it work and what sources does it use
From 2 comments
Is there more where we can read about how it works? I tried testing it with the sentence “Toledo is the largest city in Ohio” and it’s suggestions were to replace this with…
kemotep on HN> It evaluates context, factuality, coherence, and more to ensure the accuracy and credibility of content. Based on what it does the evaluations? Is there some set collection &…
margorczynski on HN
Why incorporated in UK but based in Canada
From 2 comments
I admire your bravery of posting to something like HN for people to pick at it (there are always positives and negatives)... Personally, I think there are a number of hard…
readingnews on HNWhy is your company incorporated in the UK but based out of Canada?
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Alternatives named
ChatGPT
From 2 comments
Does this do more than send the text to ChatGPT concatenated with a prompt like "fact check this essay, putting your notes between brackets"? Nothing happens when I click "fact…
remram on HNThe "AI based startup" scene is flooded with many of these. What makes you different? I tried to gauge quality using chatgpt-3.5, 4.0, and your tool. chatgpt produced better…
xyst on HN
Fakts
From 1 comment
Hello! I built Fakts (https://fakts.co/) a few years ago pre-LLMs as a college project. It attempts to highlight true, false, or inconclusive statements in a given article by…
sarboleda2299 on HN
Grammarly
From 1 comment
Yea, that's why we also added in an grammar checker, even if they dont care about facts, they can get something better than gram marly that checks for way more for way less.
helloduck1234 on HN