A writer faced backlash after a book about AI and truth was found to contain fabricated or misattributed quotes. An investigation reported that multiple people named as sources denied saying the words attributed to them. The writer admitted using AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude during research, writing, and editing. After the controversy, he said he learned to be more suspicious of AI outputs. He also said he would not return to an AI-free writing workflow. He described AI as a creative partner that connects ideas and provides new pathways for thinking, using language that personifies the tools as a writing companion.
"A recent investigation by The New York Times found that his book contained more than a half dozen fabricated or misattributed quotes, after certain individuals "quoted" in the book came forward to confirm that they never said what Rosenbaum claimed they did. These turned out to be AI hallucinations, with Rosenbaum admitting to the paper that he used tools like ChatGPT and Claude while researching, writing, and editing the book."
"Now, after the storm of controversy those extremely ironic revelations sparked - the book, after all, is explicitly about how AI affects our shared notion of the truth - Rosenbaum says he had "learned a lesson" and will be "much more suspicious" of AI outputs going forward. Except you really have to wonder what lesson he's really taking away from all this, because he also said he was never going back to the old-fashioned, AI-free writing process."
""The idea of taking X years off [from AI] while it sorts itself out, and going back to, like, Microsoft Word... it's just not in my nature," Rosenbaum told Ars Technica in an interview in the wake of the debacle. "[AI] is magical. Because it connects, it knits together ideas and gives you pathways to think about things that you're not going to come up with on your own.""
"Throughout the interview, Rosenbaum described his AI helpers in tellingly anthropomorphic fashion, including calling AI a "delightful writing companion." "When I say 'writing companion,' I don't use that lightly," he told the outlet. "It's strangely creative and crafty and unus""
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