A book about AI and truth contains quotes made up by AI. The author says it was an accident and blames ChatGPT and Claude. (Benjamin Mullin, New York Times)
- Rosenbaum's book had blurbs from Taylor Lorenz, Michael Wolff, and Nicholas Thompson, a foreword by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, and an excerpt in Wired.
- The hallucinated quotes aren't generic filler. Researchers say the invented quotes contradict their actual arguments.
- After the Hachette horror novel pulled for AI drafting, this is the third high-profile case of a writer who should have known better. At some point, "I trusted the tool" stops being an explanation and starts being a disclosure of negligence.
