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It's not just lazy.","Journalist Resigns After Being Exposed for Fake, AI-Generated Quotes, artificial intelligence","\u003Cp>Hello!\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>If you're going to use \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/will-artificial-intelligence-gives-numerous-advantages-to-an-organization\">AI\u003C/a> to write for you, and if you also happen to answer to an editor, don't. 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Investigators discovered that he wasn't just using a large language model to write the body of his articles, but to fabricate entire direct quotes, too, an egregious lapse of journalistic integrity in the age of \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/non-obvious-examples-of-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence\">AI\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>"There were some weird patterns and phrases that were in his reporting," CJ Baker, a staff writer at rival local paper the \u003Cem>Powell Tribune \u003C/em>who broke the story, told the \u003Cem>NYT\u003C/em>.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Chr />\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Also read\u003C/strong>: \u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/rfk-jr-says-he-constantly-gets-fooled-by-fake-ai-content\">RFK Jr. Says He Constantly Gets Fooled by Fake AI Content\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/innovative-growth-strategies-for-saas-businesses\">nnovative Growth Strategies for SaaS Businesses\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Chr />\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>On the Scent\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>Maybe a more conniving fraudster could've kept the charade up for longer. The fabricated quotes — which included those that claimed to be from government agencies and even the state's governor — read stiffly, and according to Baker, sounded more like the stuff put in news releases than what a person would say aloud.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-5.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Journalist Resigns After Being Exposed for Fake, AI-Generated Quotes\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"170\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-5.jpeg\" width=\"297\" />\u003C/picture>And the thing about quotes is that they're usually attributed to people. So Baker "went back and started checking on quotes that appeared in this reporter's stories that had not appeared in other publications or in press releases or elsewhere on the web," he told the \u003Cem>NYT\u003C/em>, and found seven that had never spoken to Pelczar.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>After Baker shared his findings with the \u003Cem>Cody Enterprise,\u003C/em> the paper launched an investigation, leading to Pelczar's resignation.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Cody Enterprise\u003C/em> editor Chris Bacon issued an apology in the paper's editorial on Monday. "I apologize, reader, that AI was allowed to put words that were never spoken into stories," Bacon wrote.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>Automated Fakery\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>Fraud in journalism predates AI, but the technology's capabilities potentially make fake reporting easier and more tempting than ever. Because if there's anything chatbots are good at, it's quickly churning out large amounts of text and confidently making up facts.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/ethicai-4.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Journalist Resigns After Being Exposed for Fake, AI-Generated Quotes\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"169\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/ethicai-4.jpeg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>But the temptation doesn't just apply to individual reporters who are in over their heads: entire publications have deceptively leveraged large language models, too.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Last year, for example, we caught Sports Illustrated publishing entire \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/how-to-use-artificial-intelligence-ai-for-lead-generation\">AI\u003C/a>-generated product reviews under fake bylines.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Understandably, AI's place in the newsroom remains a fraught topic. 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