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A Book About the Threats to the Truth by AI Contains False Content Hallucinated by…You Guessed It

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20.05.2026

Author Steven Rosenbaum has a book release that is beyond timely. “The Future of Truth” is a serious exploration of the impacts of the wildfire spread of artificial intelligence across numerous industries. While this mushrooming technology has plenty of benefits, it carries with it caution and concern, as the new tech has also proven to be suspect at times. 

As a result, the growth of its use in media spectrums presents challenges and frequently delivers problems. One is plagiarism, something I have touched on this past week in my media column, where a writer from New York Magazine is now suspected of over-reliance on A.I. to craft his columns and has been shown to have multiple columns where he appeared to have lifted entire sections from previously published work. 

So yes, Rosenbaum’s book appears to be a more than timely arrival. It also appears to be a more than passive approach to A.I. Writing at the New York Times, Ben Mullin looked over Rosenbaum’s new release, and he had some curiosities spring up. 

“The Future of Truth” is distributed by Simon and Schuster and published by a small publisher, BenBella Books. (This is akin to a Hollywood practice, where a small production company will make a movie and have it distributed into theaters by a major studio.) Apparently, neither company filtered Rosenbaum's work through........

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