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How to check an AI answer before you use it

An AI answer is a draft of words, not a source. Ask where the claim came from, open that page, and drop any number you cannot find there.

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An AI chatbot can tidy a sentence. It can also state a date, a fee, or a quota that is not in any document you have. If you are about to apply for a job, a scheme, or a college seat, that difference matters.

Separate the sentence from the source

Read the answer and mark every claim that would change what you do: a last date, an amount, a document name, a quote, an eligibility rule. For each one, ask which page it came from. If the chat cannot point at a page, or the page does not say that thing, do not use the claim.

Open the page yourself

Follow the link, or search the department’s site. Read the sentence in context. A tool can summarise a page you have not opened, which means you still have not checked it.

Sharda News uses the same rule in the editor: an assistant may rearrange text that is already in the draft. It is not allowed to invent a fact and it is not allowed to publish.

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Sharda News editorial policy

This note points at a page the desk used. It is not a claim that the other site wrote this article.

Questions this article answers

Can I paste an AI answer into a government form?

Not as a source. Use the form’s own instructions and the documents you hold.

What is a useful way to use the tool?

Ask it to list questions you should check, then answer those questions from official pages.

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