The News Industry’s GenAI Cautionary Tales: Generative AI failures have shown, among other things, the value of scrutinizing outsourced work. (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
- Belgian magazines and Wired published fake AI-generated reporters and freelancers who didn't exist.
- Chicago Sun-Times listed 10 non-existent books while Bloomberg corrected 36+ erroneous AI summaries.
- Apple pulled news summaries after falsely claiming Netanyahu's arrest and Nadal coming out as gay.
