Description: Steven Rosenbaum's nonfiction book The Future of Truth reportedly included AI-generated or misattributed quotations after he used ChatGPT and Claude while working on the book. The New York Times reported that more than half a dozen quotations in reviewed sections were synthetic or wrongly attributed, including passages assigned to named writers and scholars. Rosenbaum later acknowledged the errors as accidental and said affected passages would be reviewed for correction.
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View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI and Anthropic developed an AI system deployed by Writers , Steven Rosenbaum and Authors, which harmed Readers , People misquoted by AI-assisted books , Meredith Broussard , Lisa Feldman Barrett , Lee McIntyre , Kara Swisher and Epistemic integrity.
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Incident ID
1504
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1
Incident Date
2026-05-12
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I.
The author, Steven Rosenbaum, whose book "The Futur…
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