Flutterby™! : Journalist gotten by trusting LLMs

In twenty fucking twenty six, someone is "trusting [LLMs] were accurate"? Mediahaus (publisher of the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent) suspends senior journalist for using fabricated quotes produced by AI

Peter Vandermeersch said he relied on summaries produced by LLMs, ‘trusting they were accurate’.

But it's clear that he still doesn't get it. His mea culpa on Substack:

Even I—with all my years of experience and knowledge—fell into the trap of hallucinations. I summarised reports using AI tools and worked from those summaries, trusting they were accurate. In doing so, 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.

Emphasis is mine, because, no, even if the LLM tells you it's a paraphrase, we know damned well that LLMs do not summarize, at best they elide.

Via.