Book on AI's distortion of reality caught using AI to fabricate quotes
A new book titled "The Future of Truth: How AI reshapes reality" by Steven Rosenbaum has been found to include fabricated or misattributed quotes, with the author admitting to using AI in the writing process. One of the disputed quotes was attributed to NYU professor Meredith Broussard, who discussed the incident on Marketplace Tech, highlighting the irony of a book about AI distorting reality being caught using AI to generate questionable content.
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File this under the definition of irony: last month, The New York Times reported that a high-profile new book, 'The Future of Truth: How AI reshapes reality,' includes several quotes that appear to be made up or misattributed.
Author Steven Rosenbaum acknowledged he'd used AI in the writing process.
One of the quotes came, allegedly, from a book by data journalist and NYU professor Meredith Broussard. It was a critique of trusting algorithms to make decisions in medicine.
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