Microsoft claims its new tool can correct AI hallucinations, but experts advise caution
AI is a notorious liar, but Microsoft now says it has a fix for that. Understandably, that’s going to raise some eyebrows — and there’s reason to be skeptical.
Microsoft today revealed Correction, a service that attempts to automatically revise AI-generated text that’s factually wrong. Correction first flags text that may be erroneous — say, a summary of a company’s quarterly earnings call that possibly has misattributed quotes — then fact-checks it by comparing the text with a source of truth (e.g. uploaded transcripts).
Correction, available as part of Microsoft’s Azure AI Content Safety API (in preview for now), can be used with any text-generating AI model, including Meta’s Llama and OpenAI’s GPT-4o.
“Correction is powered by a new process of utilizing small language models and large language models to align outputs with grounding documents,” a Microsoft spokesperson told TechCrunch. “We hope this new feature supports builders and users of generative AI in fields such as medicine, where application developers determine the accuracy of responses to be of significant importance.”
