How SIFT Toolbox helps chatbots with fact-checking
It's not often I get really excited about a new prompt. This one gives me hope that chatbots can be used in support of information literacy and a concern for truth. It highlights how a chatbot that can browse can assist us in sifting through competing claims from vetted sources to get perspective on a claim.
With his prompt, Mike Caulfield illustrates the principles in his recent The Atlantic article. He explains, "SIFT Toolbox is a lengthy instruction prompt...You paste it in at the beginning of a chat session... With the prompt in place, your LLM will come to better conclusions, hallucinate less, and source conflicting perspectives more systematically. It also models an approach that is less chatbot, and more research assistant in a way that is appropriate for student researchers, who can use it to aid research while coming to their own conclusions."
Go to the website https://lnkd.in/gYBvdSA4 and copy all the text in that tiny little box on the right. Paste it into Claude (free version is okay).
Then, give it a claim, any claim. Maybe one you hear a lot and question. I tried "Exposure to a big change in temperature like a sudden cold snap can make someone more likely to catch a cold" because I've long wondered if there was anything to that. Here's the result: https://lnkd.in/g--mWnfy
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