Releases·Tool Release
I made Claude stop answering fact-checks from memory. Here's what 223 hand-labelled test cases taught me.
A developer released a Chrome extension that fact-checks highlighted text by splitting sentences into claims, running real web searches via Serper API, and having Claude Haiku judge each snippet. The developer hand-labelled 223 search snippets to measure accuracy and iterated on prompting and API settings based on the results.
1 engagement1 sourceThu, Sep 24, 2026, 09:07 AM
AI Overview
- A Chrome extension splits highlighted sentences into up to 3 claims, searches via Serper API, and has Claude Haiku judge snippets as supporting, contradicting, or off topic.
- A second-pass check of every 'contradicts' verdict ('could both be true?') raised contradiction precision from 65% to 87%; strict:true lowered accuracy 60% to 58%.
- Setting temperature to 0 cut low-recall labels across repeated runs from 48 of 223 to 5; judging all sources in one call beat judging one at a time.
- The verdict matches hand labels on 51 of 68 claims (about 3 in 4) with 1 of 68 wrongly contradicted; the developer targets 95% contradiction precision.
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