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Shannon Vallor

AI ethicist and philosopher, University of Edinburgh

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Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.

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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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Wired is unaware of the extent to which I can be motivated by moral outrage. And spite. A lot of spite.

Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search | WIRED wired.com

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In which I give AI chatbots a fact checking test and find them sorely wanting. My latest for WIRED.

I’m a Professional Fact-Checker. AI Is Wrong More Often Than You Think | WIRED wired.com View on Bluesky →

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@philipncohen.com

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.o…

[2605.07723] LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations arxiv.org View on Bluesky →

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop 404media.co View on Bluesky →

This is horrible reading, and also wonderful reading, because its seething rage is so undeniably human

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI | WIRED wired.com

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The fact that people are using AI to steal my writing, churn out a shittier version of it, falsely attribute it to someone more famous, and get more press coverage and sales for their book than I ever will is *chef’s kiss* pure 2026 energy

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