Theoretical analysis proposes the concept of "emergent facts" to describe generative AI outputs, arguing that while these outputs appear coherent and plausible, they remain probabilistic, context-dependent, and epistemically opaque rather than anchored in empirical ground truth
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Taylor & Francis
What is a fact in the age of generative AI? Fact-checking as an epistemological lens
Generative AI systems produce outputs that are coherent and contextually plausible yet not necessarily anchored in empirical evidence or ground truth. This challenges traditional notions of factual...