Source: Fortune
A book about misinformation contained fabricated citations—a failure that exposes how AI tools can embed false information into published work without detection, even by subject-matter experts reviewing their own material. As AI becomes embedded in publishing workflows (research assistance, fact-checking, copyediting), the tools designed to prevent errors become sources of authoritative-sounding falsehoods that pass professional gatekeeping. The author's decision to fight back publicly matters because it makes visible a structural gap: the verification burden has shifted from systems (publishers, databases) to individual authors, who lack the resources to catch what AI confidently generates.