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Built an open-source fact-checker for AI agents, it won't let a claim through unless it can actually back it up

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The thing that kept bugging me: ask an AI "how sure are you?" and it says 95% almost every time, whether it's right or not. Fine for a chat. Not fine when an agent is about to act on that info — write it into a report, save it to a knowledge base, make a decision. So we built the thing that checks…

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  1. 2026-09-01 15:17 · r/learnmachinelearning
    Built an open-source fact-checker for AI agents, it won't let a claim through unless it can actually back it up

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