A journalist breaks down the prompts he uses to identify errors Google Bard introduces.
They include telling the bot to list the facts it relied on or to explain its thinking step-by-step.
No matter how specific your prompts are, it will occasionally cite made-up sources and introduce outright errors.
By using a few carefully honed prompts, I can identify and deal with any inaccuracies at a glance.
Sure, I still need to manually verify whatever Bard spits out, but these four prompts help me fact-check quickly, saving me time by making the artificial intelligence do the heavy lifting.
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Bard, loathes, I've, Google's Bard, it's, Bard doesn't