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Syndicated content in Sun-Times special section included AI-generated misinformation
A Chicago freelance journalist said he did not fact-check information he compiled using AI before including it in stories for media clients.
Buscaglia said he was working for King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst, to produce content that is sold to media clients across the country, and he wanted to assume full responsibility for what happened, which exposed the Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer to widespread public mockery. Chicago Public Media Vice President of Marketing and Communications Victor Lim declined to say whether the organization would review other content from King Features or Buscaglia besides the special section. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Inquirer said it also had published a 56-page summer supplement from King Features last Thursday, and the section included “material generated by AI that is apparently fabricated, outright false or misleading.”
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