Check an AI citation before you use it
Find an AI-suggested scholarly reference, match it to the publisher, check for updates and read the passage that supports your claim. A free Crossref and PLOS walkthrough.
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Check an AI-suggested citation, statistic or book quote against its source. Inspect a chart's input data and a photo's Content Credentials.
AI tools can name a paper, a number or a quote that looks right and is wrong. Each guide here takes one kind of claim back to where it came from.
The citation guide matches a reference in Crossref and checks the publisher and any corrections. The statistic guide traces a figure to Eurostat's original table and checks the year, population, geography and measure. The book quote guide confirms the speaker, edition and printed page against a scan. The photo guide reads Content Credentials with the free Verify tool and explains what a missing record does not prove.
The chart guide compares a Lumo chart with its input table and checks totals and changed data.
Find an AI-suggested scholarly reference, match it to the publisher, check for updates and read the passage that supports your claim. A free Crossref and PLOS walkthrough.
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Trace a fictional AI statistic to Eurostat’s original table. Check the year, population, geography and measure before you use the number.
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Trace a book quote to its scanned page, check the speaker and edition, and save the right citation details. Follow a free Pride and Prejudice example.
Read an image's recorded AI use, edits and issuer with the free Verify tool. Learn why missing credentials and a signed history cannot settle whether a photo is true.
Create a Lumo bar chart from fictional CSV rows, check repeated categories and totals, add readable labels, then verify a one-row correction.