Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Emily Bell 3/26/26
Headline: “Did I Really Say That?”
Subhead: “A European journalist apologized for using AI to fabricate quotes—including from me. But there’s little accountability in blaming a chatbot.”
“Three weeks ago, a Dutch freelancer named Menno van den Bos contacted CJR and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism to tell us he had found a writeup of our Journalism 2050 issue in his country’s press that he suspected of containing AI-generated inaccuracies. In itself this is not surprising. As we have written here before, the incidence of fake quotes and citations from journalists and academics is a growing menace. . .”
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