Steven Rosenbaum, media entrepreneur and executive director of the Sustainable Media Center, published The Future of Truth with content from ChatGPT that included more than a dozen fabricated quotes, the New York Times found

How do you not double-check information provided by AI in a book about AI called The Future of Truth?!? There's no deeper story here except that Rosenbaum is lazy af and/or hired a ghostwriter.

The ghostwriter thing is way too common, largely tolerated in the industry when it shouldn't be, needs much better disclosure at a bare minimum. I'm old fashioned and think if your name is on the cover, the thesis and the writing should be truly yours.

@WillOremus "Ma, the chatbot did it!"

@NateSilver538 I find AI very useful for logical composition. It is horrible for research and sourcing.

@WillOremus Well, this is a fairly straightforward case of another person putting their life and career in ruins because they became immersed and were given chatbot fever or AI psychosis or LLMania or whatever name for this manmade sickness that Altman and Amodei have given us we decide upon

@WillOremus What do editors even do nowadays

@MartinKaste @WillOremus A giant hogweed plant wrote that.

@jackshafer @WillOremus

@NateSilver538 Yes.

@WillOremus Suckers gotta suck.

@WillOremus An embarrassment of riches in irony

I wrote about how the rise of AI-assisted writing is blurring the lines between human authorship and slop — and leading some writers to feel pressure to overrely on tools that still have serious, albeit increasingly subtle, flaws. Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-writing-scandal-future-of-truth-book/687290/?gift=A_VYuI0Bs4X1cJsYonaJVA0OsMZvPpHg7-n_UJE0Egw

@WillOremus There is a reason the Captain is accountable for the airplane trip, not the instruments, autopilot, or first officer*.

* yes I am aware of dispatch.

@NateSilver538 I think a lot of blame can also go on the publishing house for failure to fact check. It's a rampant problem in the nonfiction world and I think that is important

@NateSilver538 If used properly it’s a great tool and it’s just reality that the future is going to use it, some more than others but transparency is a double edged sword. You say you used AI at all and some people conclude it’s all AI, there is a balance and eventually it’ll be figured out

@NateSilver538 Your old fashionism certainly would relegate trump's books further into the dustbin. Everytime Lindsey or another dim bulbed R senator says, "well he did write The Art of The Deal" I cringe and shout Trump Taj, Marina, Plaza

@NateSilver538 This honestly feels like one of the biggest lessons of the AI era. These tools can be incredibly useful but treating them like flawless sources without verification is asking for trouble @NateSilver538

@NateSilver538 First to market. We will fix the bugs later!

@NateSilver538 jfk profiles in courage was ghostwritten by ted sorensen and won the pulitzer in 1957. the entire genre of 'thought leader' books has been a syndicate operation for 70 years, disclosure was never coming

@WillOremus 😀 hello what