Drew Harwell

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com

Duuuuuude. When caught having AI-fabricated quotes in your book about the impact AI is having on "truth"... trying to turn that into "well, see here, this proves the point of my book" is just grade A level chutzpah. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

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AI Weekly's analysis
  • The Future of Truth, a book about AI disinformation, contained AI-fabricated quotes attributed to real people that passed editorial review.
  • EY Canada separately retracted a client report days earlier after 60% of its citations were found to be AI hallucinations.
  • Both failures share the same mechanism: AI tools inserted at the research stage produced fabrications that downstream human review did not catch.
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@kevinschaul.bsky.social

New from me: See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article. I hooked this article up to an LLM to help explain system prompts. Give it a try -> www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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