A new book that explores the dangers of “soulless” artificial intelligence includes fake, AI-generated quotes, the New York Times reports.
Steven Rosenbaum, the author of The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, admits in his book that he used AI to help write research and write it. It resulted in the inclusion of quotes that were either misattributed or completely invented.
Rosenbaum’s book, published by Matt Holt/BenBella last week, focuses on the concept of truth in a world filled with AI, bots, and algorithms. “In these pages, we’ll explore…how, in their hunger for clarity, robots erase Truth’s messy, beautiful middle, replacing it with something cold, confident, and designed to serve soulless AI, not the humans who built it,” the publisher says of the book, which a critic for Kirkus called “a brisk, conversational exploration of artificial intelligence.”
The Times noted several examples of either misattributed or fabricated quotes, including one purportedly from journalist Kara Swisher, who told the newspaper it was inauthentic. “I also sound like I have a stick up my butt, according to ChatGPT,” she said.
Rosenbaum told the Times, “As I disclosed in the book’s acknowledgments, I used AI tools ChatGPT and Claude during the research, writing, and editing process. That does not excuse these errors, of which I take full responsibility. I am now working with the editors to thoroughly review and quickly correct any affected passages; any future editions will be corrected.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
