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Luke Stark

Assistant professor of AI ethics, Western University

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🏳️‍🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️‍⚧️ ally | views my own https://starkcontrast.co/ https://starlingcentre.ca/
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com

Using chatbots for nonfiction and journalism seems like playing Russian roulette with a semi-automatic firearm. Writing is hard enough without a minefield of fabricated quotes and flagrant plagiarism. Also, the cognitive offloading seems to weaken discipline. www.nytimes.com/2…

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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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@wstaylor87.bsky.social

@alondra.bsky.social on growing moves to develop a civic grammar for AI rights: “A practice travels rapidly across unconnected sites when it has been abstracted into a portable model that actors can adopt without direct contact with the original.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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