Author's new book pulled and revised due to AI-hallucinated quotes
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Five days after the publication of writer Steve's book "The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality," New York Times reporter Ben Mullin discovered that it contained AI-fabricated quotes, including a passage mistakenly attributed to Kara Swisher. The publisher BenBella Books arranged for two human fact-checkers to verify line by line, found 26 quotes that did not hold up, and has traced, corrected, rewritten, or deleted each one, and removed all endorsements and the foreword. The revised edition, Truth 2.0, was published on October 6.
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- fortune.comThe book "The Future of Truth" was found to contain AI-hallucinated quotes; the revised edition Truth 2.0 was published on October 6
Five days after the publication of writer Steve's book "The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality," New York Times reporter Ben Mullin discovered that it contained AI-fabricated quotes, including a passage mistakenly attributed to Kara Swisher. The publisher BenBella Books arranged for two human fact-checkers to verify line by line, found 26 quotes that did not hold up, and has traced, corrected, rewritten, or deleted each one, and removed all endorsements and the foreword. The revised edition, "The Future of Truth: Truth 2.0 Revised," was published on October 6.
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