AI Fact Checks AI! What A Gas…Lighting Event
December 12, 2025
Josh Brandon at Digital Trends was curious what would happen if he asked two chatbots to fact check each other. He shared the results in, “I Asked Google Gemini To Fact-Check ChatGPT. The Results Were Hilarious.” He brilliantly calls ChatGPT the Wikipedia of the modern generation. Chatbots spit out details like overconfident, self-assured narcissists. People take the information for granted.
ChatGPT tends to hallucinate fake facts and makes up great stories, while Google Gemini doesn’t create as many mirages. Brandon asked Gemini and ChatGPT about the history of electric cars, some historical information, and a few other things to see if they’d hallucinate. He found that the chatbots have trouble understanding user intent. They also wrongly attribute facts, although Gemini is correct more than ChatGPT. When it came to research questions, the results were laughable:
“Prompt used: ‘Find me some academic quotes about the psychological impact of social media.;
This one is comical and fascinating. ChatGPT invented so many details in a response about the psychological impact of social media that it makes you wonder what the bot was smoking. ‘This is a fantastic and dangerous example of partial hallucination, where real information is mixed with fabricated details, making the entire output unreliable. About 60% of the information here is true, but the 40% that is false makes it unusable for academic purposes.’”
Either AI’s iterations are not delivering more useful outputs or humans are now looking more critically at the technology and saying, “Not so fast, buckaroo.”
Whitney Grace, December 12, 2025
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