Using GenSpark: Fact-Checking Agents and the Sparkpage

Originally published in Chinese on October 4, 2024. GenSpark is an AI search product. After using it, two features stood out: the Autopilot Agent and the Sparkpage. The asynchronous Autopilot Agent Core feature: cross-checking and fact-checking The most central feature right now is cross-checking, which means fact-checking. The technical details are in the introduction link the company provides. In use, it splits a task into parts, and that makes real-time verification a better experience. Where traditional search engines fall short Today's search ranking works like this: the engine gives web pages a weight ranking, and it derives that weight from user click feedback. That is why, back when people did SEO, a higher weight meant a higher position and a better chance of being seen by users. But a search engine does not effectively check whether content is true. It only indexes. At one point some engines certified official sites or content, and after cross-ranking many pieces of content they built a corresponding content library. Still, they never fact-checked the content. Mostly this was a matter of disclaiming liability: at the least, they hoped users would not treat the results as an authoritative reference.