ChatGPT has recently emerged as a powerful tool for performing diverse NLP tasks. However, ChatGPT has been criticized for generating nonfactual responses, raising concerns about its usability for sensitive tasks like fact verification. This study investigates three key research questions: (1) Can ChatGPT be used for fact verification tasks? (2) What are different prompts performance using ChatGPT for fact verification tasks? (3) For the best-performing prompt, what common mistakes does ChatGPT make? Specifically, this study focuses on conducting a comprehensive and systematic analysis by designing and comparing the performance of three different prompts for fact verification tasks on the benchmark FEVER dataset using ChatGPT.

翻译：ChatGPT近期作为执行多种自然语言处理任务的强大工具而涌现。然而，ChatGPT因生成非事实性回答而受到批评，这引发了对其在敏感任务（如事实核查）中可用性的担忧。本研究探讨三个关键研究问题：（1）ChatGPT能否用于事实核查任务？（2）使用ChatGPT进行事实核查任务时，不同提示的表现如何？（3）对于表现最佳的提示，ChatGPT常犯哪些错误？具体而言，本研究通过设计和比较三种不同提示在基准数据集FEVER上使用ChatGPT进行事实核查任务的表现，旨在进行系统全面的分析。