Irony murdered: A book about truth and AI apparently includes quotes made up by AI. The author says he'll investigate. Whom? Himself? (Disclosure: I deflected requests to blurb it.) Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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- 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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Lovely essay equates Waiting for Godot with AGI. "The persistence of waiting, therefore, reflects a distribution of roles whose coherence depends on anticipation rather than on settled judgment" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Waiting for AGI | AI & SOCIETY | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com
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JFC, Rosenbaum refuses to take responsibility and he's still promoting the book on his socials without coming clean. His book is supposed to be about truth. AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The problem, I've been shouting, is not the technology but humans: It is impossible to predict--thus forbid--every malign use to which a general machine can be subjected. Guardrails are fools' comfort. Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/…
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I love the Guardian. Best we have. Journalism's last hope. But its digital puritanism (after early years of digital love) drives me nuts. They tell us to give up phones and the net and now AI. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Take that, Elon. Jury Rejects Musk’s Claims Against OpenAI wsj.com/tech/ai/jury...
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6 ways I say Axios can warp journalism 5 ways Pope Leo says AI could warp humanity www.axios.com/2026/05/25/p...
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Like the swallows to Capistrano and the return of the locusts, here comes the perennial micropayments-will-save-media meme, back for another round thanks to Sam Altman. Sam Altman backs “micropayment” model for AI agents to compensate publishers www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/sam-...
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This week on AI Inside with @jeffjarvis.bsky.social : → Pope Leo XIV's 42,000-word AI encyclical → Anthropic Mythos finds 10K+ critical bugs → AI lawsuits flooding courts → DeepSeek now 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5 Catch it: aiinside.show/episode/pope...
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