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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check your help articles for factual errors.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
5 minutesto a draft.
30 minutesto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededchat-fluent
Who has to check ita colleague
What the alternative costsNo price for a human fact-checker is provided in the supplied data.
If this goes wrong: customers follow an incorrect instruction, contact support again or lose trust in your organisation.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open the current help article and copy its full text, including headings, links, prices, dates, contact details and step-by-step instructions.
- Gather the current product documentation, approved policies, service limits, support procedures and source URLs that the article is meant to reflect.
- Paste the article and reference material into a chatbot with the prompt above, keeping each source clearly labelled.
- Ask the model to produce its findings in a table with columns for article text, issue type, evidence, source URL, proposed correction and confidence.
- Open every cited source and compare each flagged statement with the current wording, checking product settings and customer-facing rules in the relevant system as well.
- Ask a product owner or support colleague to decide every item marked unsupported, ambiguous or potentially out of date.
- Apply only corrections supported by the current sources, then send the revised article through your normal approval and publishing process.
Prompt
Check the help article below for factual errors using only the reference material I provide. Do not assume that a claim is true because it sounds plausible, and do not invent missing information. For each finding, provide: the exact article text, the issue type, the reason it may be wrong or unclear, the supporting source and URL if supplied, a proposed correction, and a confidence level of high, medium or low. Separate definite errors from claims that are unsupported, ambiguous or potentially out of date. Flag instructions, product names, prices, eligibility rules, deadlines, contact details and feature descriptions that need checking. If the references do not establish a claim, say that it cannot be verified from the supplied material. Finish with a clean list of sentences that need a human decision before publication. Article title: [ARTICLE TITLE] Article text: [PASTE ARTICLE] Reference material and source URLs: [PASTE CURRENT PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION, POLICIES, APPROVED ANSWERS AND URLS] Audience and publishing context: [DESCRIBE WHO WILL USE THIS ARTICLE AND WHERE IT WILL BE PUBLISHED]
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- It cannot know whether your internal product behaviour matches the documentation unless you provide current evidence or test the system.
- It cannot reliably decide which internal policy takes priority when your sources conflict.
- It cannot take responsibility for publishing an incorrect customer instruction.
- It cannot replace a subject-matter reviewer for ambiguous wording, exceptions or changes that have not reached the written documentation.
What caps this at PARTLY: real time truth, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 1 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 1 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 7 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can AI check a help article for factual errors?
- Partly. It can compare the article with source material, flag contradictions and suggest corrections, but you must provide current references and confirm the findings before publication.
- Can AI fact-check my customer support content?
- Yes, as a first pass rather than a final approval. It can find unsupported claims and inconsistent instructions, but your team still carries responsibility for checking product behaviour and current policy.
- What should I give AI to check a help article?
- Give it the complete article plus current product documentation, approved policies, support procedures and source URLs. Include prices, deadlines, eligibility rules and any internal exceptions that the article mentions.
- Can AI verify that my help article is up to date?
- Only against the information you give it. It cannot establish that your sources reflect a recent product or policy change without a current source, system check or colleague confirming the change.
Nearby answers
- Can AI draft a GDPR FAQ for my business?YES
- Can AI rewrite my help articles in plain English?YES
- Can AI turn my support tickets into FAQs?YES
- Can AI write a help centre article for my business?PARTLY
- Can AI write a returns FAQ for my UK online shop?PARTLY
- Can AI write step-by-step instructions for my customers?YES
Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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