A fact-checking startup has accelerated plans to banishAI hallucinationsafter securing 1mn in funding.
Norway-basedFactiverseuses machine learning to verify content generated by artificial intelligence.
The companys tools automatically detect inaccurate outputs.
These errors now frequently cause controversy.
A New York lawyer, for instance, had to apologise forusing bogus court citationssourced from ChatGPT.
CNET needed to correct41 of the 77 storiesthat the news outlet had written with an AI tool.
Microsofts Bing AI has producednumerous errorsin analyses of earning reports.
The companys chatbot has also claimed itspied on employees.
Factiverse offers a solution to these problems.
Founded in 2019, the company builds patented models that analyse AI-generated content.
These models harness research by Vinay Setty, the companys co-founder and CTO.
Setty is also an associate professor in machine learning at University in Stavanger.
He has spent over a decade investigating text and graph mining for fact-checking.
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Investment firms Herfo and Valide Invest also contributed.
Factiverses CEO and co-founder,Maria Amelie,announced the raise today atTNW Conference.
Alongside the funding, Factiverse has also launched ajournalist trial program.
Users will get 30 days of free access to the fact-checking tech.
No payment card is needed for the trial.
Instances of companies facing legal repercussions for factual errors in their chatbots are already a reality, he said.
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