Media industry
fromFast Company
14 hours agoAI-assisted journalism needs disclosure. Here's mine
AI-generated fabricated or misattributed quotes can slip into journalism when writers copy chatbot output without verifying sources.
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Turns out, the Times of London reporter Bevan Hurley hadn't talked to the former New York City mayor. The actual former mayor put out a statement on social media saying the quotes were not his, and that he never spoke to Hurley. The paper quickly yanked the story from its website and said it had personally apologized to de Blasio.