Submitted 3 weeks ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
The publisher of the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and the Irish Independent has suspended one of its senior journalists after he admitted using AI to “wrongly put words into people’s mouths”.
Just in case if you want to know which outlets are affected.
Deserved to get fired.
He wrote about the danger of AI as well and the need to supervise/ check it. And did not do it himself!
The quotes from his apology post sound like they were written by an LLM too IMO 🙀
“I wrongly put words into people’s mouths, when I should have presented them as paraphrases. In some cases, it reflected my interpretation of their words. That was not just careless – it was wrong,” Vandermeersch wrote in a Substack post headlined “I am admitting my mistake”.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
He “fell into the trap of hallucinations”. Yeah, maybe we need to stop pretending people who ask LLM to slop their work for them are victims.
“Look, the robot found an irresistible quote, how could I not use it?!” That’s great journalism for you.