The check people most often skip can come right after an article starts reading smoothly. A sentence you would normally stop to reread has been polished by AI, so you read right through to the end without noticing that a detail has changed.
It’s worth reading through once more before publishing. This time, don’t focus on how polished the sentences sound. Check what the article says and whether you have a reason to say it.
First, find every detail that can be verified
Circle names, dates, amounts, percentages, product names, and quotes. Check each one against its source, whether that’s your own records or external information.
For example, if you only remember attending an event but didn’t note the exact number of people, don’t leave “nearly a hundred people attended” in the article just because it appeared in a rewrite. If you don’t have the data, remove the number. Not every paragraph needs a precise figure.
If you quote someone, go back to the original source and check the wording and context. A sentence generated by AI isn’t a direct quote just because it’s in quotation marks.
Look closely at “because,” “so,” and “definitely”
Some edits don’t add any new terms, but make a relationship sound more certain. For instance, “I started writing in the morning and happened to finish two pieces this week” might become “Writing in the morning doubled my output.” That adds a causal claim the original doesn’t prove.
Search for words like “therefore,” “as long as,” “definitely,” and “proves” to see whether they really fit the information you have. Also check whether qualifiers from the original, such as “possibly,” “this time,” and “for me,” have been removed.
These qualifiers aren’t unnecessary filler. Sometimes they clarify the limits of what you know.
Keep opinions, personal experience, and external information separate
“I prefer to dictate first” is a preference. “I used dictation to finish a draft section yesterday” is personal experience. “How much faster dictation is than typing” requires appropriate data and a suitable way to compare. These kinds of statements aren’t interchangeable.
If you’re writing about a tool, don’t present your one-time trial as a result everyone will get. Readers will find it more useful if you explain the situation in which you used it, what you observed, and what you haven’t tried yet.
You can ask AI to flag questions, but check them yourself
When using AI a second time, you can ask it to point out which sentences need evidence and where things don’t line up, without having it edit the main text. That makes it easier to check each item one by one.
This prompt can help identify questions, but it can’t guarantee that it will find them all. Fact-checking still requires going back to the original sources. Asking for edits in Gaoding also doesn’t mean Agent has verified the content online. Check any details that require external sources yourself before adding them to the article.
Keep these five checks in mind before publishing
You don’t need to rethink the process every time. You can temporarily add a checklist to the end of your draft and remove it once you’ve finished checking:
- Have names, dates, and numbers been checked against the original records?
- Can you find the original wording and context for each quote?
- Did the rewrite add any experiences or details that didn’t happen?
- Are the conclusions more certain than the evidence you have?
- Is there any personal information, conversation, or information about other people that shouldn’t be made public?
If you come across a claim you can’t confirm yet, you can remove it, narrow it to what you know for sure, or leave it until you’ve checked it. You don’t have to rush to publish every sentence just because the article is finished.
Finally, read it aloud in your own voice. If someone asks, “Why do you say that?” and you can answer, that section is truly finished.
The example in this article is for editorial illustration only; it does not represent actual results from speech recognition or model rewriting. The content was drafted and organized with AI assistance. For information about features and data handling, see FAQs。