Ground Truth

About & editorial standard

Credibility from method, not from a byline.

Ground Truth is an independent publication that scrutinizes AI claims in global health. This page is the standard we hold ourselves to — and the standard you can hold us to.

What Ground Truth does

We examine the benchmarks, accuracy scores, and capability announcements that shape what gets funded, deployed, and believed in global health. For each claim, we find the primary source, read what it actually measured, and mark the part that was left out. The goal is not to be against AI. It is to keep two things apart: what a system has been shown to do, and what it is being sold as able to do.

The method

Every claim traced to a primary source

We do not report a number without linking to the material that produced it — the paper, the model card, the registry entry. If a claim can only be traced to a press release, we say so, and we treat it as unverified. Our readers should never have to take our word for a fact they could check themselves.

Self-contained, plainly written

Each piece leads with the answer, then shows the working. We write so that a single passage still makes sense when it is lifted out and quoted — by a reader, a journalist, or an answer engine — without distorting what we meant.

The claim, un-redacted

Our recurring analytical unit takes a claim, states what you are meant to conclude, marks what is hidden in red, and gives you the question to ask. It is the same move every time, because the move is the point: hype is a true sentence with the conditions cut out, and our job is to put the conditions back.

Independence

Ground Truth takes no funding from, and holds no affiliation with, the companies or funders whose work it examines. We accept no sponsorship, advertising, or paid placement from AI vendors, model developers, or the philanthropies that finance them. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on this page before it appears anywhere else. Independence is not a marketing line here; it is the reason the analysis can be trusted.

Corrections policy

We correct our own errors in public. When we get something wrong, we fix it on the page, add a dated correction note explaining what changed, and update the article's modified date. We do not quietly edit and move on. A correction is not an embarrassment to hide; it is the standard working as intended, and a signal that the record can be trusted precisely because it is kept honest.

Submit a tip or correction

If you have found a claim worth scrutinizing, spotted an error in our work, or can point us to a primary source we missed, tell us. We read everything and correct what needs correcting.