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An AI writer that doesn't hallucinate sources
No AI writer can honestly promise zero hallucinations, because any language model can produce a fluent claim that is wrong. What uprank does is refuse to publish what it cannot trace: it researches into an Evidence Pack before drafting, treats any citation outside that pack as invented, checks each claim against its source, and blocks the article on an invented citation or an unsupported high-risk claim. Drafts go to your CMS as drafts by default, so a person reviews them before anything goes live.
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Why AI writers hallucinate
A language model writes likely text, not looked-up facts
It produces what sounds right given its training. Fluent and confident wording says nothing about whether the claim is true.
Without sources in front of it, it fills gaps from memory
Memory can be wrong, out of date or a blend of several things. A statistic, date or quote that is missing from the context tends to get a plausible-sounding replacement.
Citations are generated text too
If nothing checks them, a reference can look real, with a plausible title, publisher and URL, and still point to nothing.
Links added after the draft can still be wrong
Finding a real page that sounds related is not the same as finding a source that says what the sentence says.
What uprank does instead
Research first
Research runs before drafting and produces an Evidence Pack of attributable sources. The draft is written from that pack, not from the model’s memory alone.
Citations only to the Evidence Pack
Every citation must point to a source in the article’s Evidence Pack, gathered before drafting. A citation that points anywhere else is an invented citation, and that is a hard gate.
Every claim is checked
The claims in the draft are extracted and each is checked against the source excerpts, then marked directly supported, partly supported, contradicted or unsupported. A claim no gathered source supports is treated as unsupported, even if it happens to be true.
High-risk and time-sensitive claims can block publishing
Each high-risk claim is checked against its source; any unsupported or contradicted one blocks the article. Claims that depend on dates, prices or versions must fall inside their freshness window.
13 hard gates before publishing
An article that fails any of them cannot be published: 6 minimum scores and 7 integrity checks. A score never overrides a failed gate.
Draft-first, with an audit trail
Articles go to your CMS as drafts by default, so a person reviews them before anything is live. Live publishing needs an explicit confirmation and is audited. Claims, the sources they were checked against, scores and article versions are stored.
What uprank will not do
- Promise zero hallucinations. No language model can, and the claim check is itself automated, which is why drafts go to your CMS for human review.
- Invent citations, or publish an article that cites something outside its Evidence Pack.
- Publish an article that fails a hard gate.
- Fake first-hand expertise.
- Promise rankings or traffic.
- Prove its sources right. It checks claims against the sources it gathered, so a wrong source can still support a claim.
Questions to ask any AI writer
Worth asking of any tool, uprank included.
- Are sources gathered before the draft is written, or are links added afterwards?
- Can every citation be traced to a source the writer actually collected?
- Is each factual claim checked against the passage in its source, and can you see the result?
- What happens to a claim with no supporting source: flagged, cut, or published anyway?
- Are time-sensitive claims, such as prices, dates and versions, checked for freshness?
- Does a failed check stop publishing, or is it only advice?
- Does the draft reach a human review step before it goes live, and is a live publish recorded?
Common questions
- Can an AI writer guarantee no hallucinations?
- No. Any language model can write a claim that sounds right and is not. What a writer can do is limit the damage: ground the draft in sources gathered beforehand, check claims against those sources, and block publishing when a check fails. That is what uprank does, and its drafts go to your CMS for human review.
- How does uprank stop invented citations?
- Every citation must point to a source in the article’s Evidence Pack, which is gathered before drafting. A citation that points elsewhere is an invented citation. That is a hard gate: the article cannot be published until it is fixed.
- What happens to a claim uprank cannot support?
- Each claim is checked against the source excerpts and marked directly supported, partly supported, contradicted or unsupported. An unsupported or contradicted high-risk claim blocks the article. Other unsupported claims pull down the Evidence score, which has a minimum the article must meet.
- Do I still need to review articles written by uprank?
- Yes. The claim check is automated, and uprank cannot tell whether a source is itself wrong. Articles reach your CMS as drafts by default for that reason, and a live publish needs an explicit confirmation and is audited.
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