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Journalism

Chasing the Hallucinations: PwC report hallucinates product and government customers
Over the past year, a team of GPTZero investigators has used our Hallucination Check tool to uncover hallucinated citations in government reports, academic papers submitted to prestigious machine learning / artificial intelligence conferences like ICLR and NeurIPS, and research products from three of the big four consulting firms: Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG. This is the third in a series of investigations into reports containing hallucinated citations surfaced by an automated search pipel
Paul Esau, Om Ogale, Alex Cui
· 17 min read
How AP Verify is helping combat misinformation with GPTZero
The Associated Press’s AP Verify is an AI-powered tool that helps journalists verify text, photos and videos all in one place. As part of its text workflow, AP Verify integrates GPTZero for generative AI text detection.
Alex Cui, Adele Barlow
· 2 min read
Chasing the Hallucinations: KPMG's AI-Powered Attempt at "Redefining Excellence"
Over the past year, a team of GPTZero investigators has used our Hallucination Check tool to uncover hallucinated citations in government reports, academic papers submitted to prestigious machine learning / artificial intelligence conferences like ICLR and NeurIPS, and research products from two of the big four consulting firms: Deloitte and Ernst & Young. This is the second in a series of investigations into reports containing hallucinated citations surfaced by an automated search pipeline. Th
Paul Esau, Om Ogale, Alex Cui
· 18 min read
EY retracts study after GPTZero discovers it was mostly hallucinated by AI
Ernst & Young (EY) Canada published a cybersecurity report on loyalty program safeguards. GPTZero chased down every citation. Most were hallucinated.
Om Ogale, Paul Esau, Alex Cui

GPTZero Partners with HackerNoon to Preserve What’s Human in Tech Publishing
Today, we’re excited to announce a partnership with one of the largest independent tech publishing platforms in the world. HackerNoon is integrating GPTZero directly into its editorial workflow, meaning our AI detection technology will now analyze over 5,000 submissions every month before they reach publication. With this partnership, GPTZero’s detector will be integrated into HackerNoon’s Editing Protocol to evaluate and review all new HackerNoon blogs. Additionally, HackerNoon will also use m
GPTZero Team
· 1 min read
Deloitte's Citation Situation & GPTZero's Citation Solution
GPTZero used our Citation Check to analyze the 234 page report and identified more than 30 issues out of the total 141 citations, including 19 hallucinations. Using GPTZero’s citation check would have saved ~$5000 per citation, all within minutes.
Nazar Shmatko, Paul Esau, Alex Cui
· 9 min read
Making America Hallucinate Again? GPTZero Detects New Errors in Major Government Report
On May 22, the U.S. Presidential Commission to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), led by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released a major report on the causes of chronic diseases in children. Yet within a week, news outlets including NOTUS, the New York Times and Washington Post reported that some of the publication’s hundreds of footnotes appeared garbled or fabricated, suggesting they’d been generated by AI. Using GPTZero’s Bibliography Scan tool, we identified nine fabricated sources
Paul Esau, Alex Cui, Nazar Shmatko
· 11 min read
How Can the GPTZero Fact Checker Support Journalism?
Journalism has always been about uncovering the truth - but today, that truth is harder to pin down. AI-generated misinformation spreads faster than it can be verified. This is why GPTZero is building tools to fact-check at scale.
Edward Tian
· 5 min read