news on Good Catchhttps://goodcatch.in/tags/news/Recent content in news on Good CatchHugoen-USThu, 15 Oct 2026 08:44:00 +0530Science magazine pulls an article written by AI under a stolen journalist's namehttps://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-science-fake-journalist/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:44:00 +0530https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-science-fake-journalist/Someone pretended to be a real science writer, sent in AI-written pitches, and got paid for an article. Science only found out three months later.Asked if a picture is real, chatbots got it wrong again and againhttps://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-chatbots-call-fake-pictures-real/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:42:00 +0530https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-chatbots-call-fake-pictures-real/UK fact-checkers Full Fact tested chatbots on pictures and videos they had already proved false. They found 39 big mistakes.Big consulting firm pulls a report after most of its sources turn out fake or wronghttps://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-ey-report-made-up-sources/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:36:00 +0530https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-ey-report-made-up-sources/More than 70% of the 27 sources in an EY report were made up or wrong, and it had already run in over 60 Australian newspapers.The New York Times prints a quote a politician never said. An AI wrote it.https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-nyt-ai-made-quote/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:35:00 +0530https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-nyt-ai-made-quote/A reporter asked an AI tool what Pierre Poilievre had said. It gave back a summary written like a quote, and the paper printed it as his words.A tech news site about AI risks publishes quotes an AI made uphttps://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-ars-technica-made-up-quotes/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:31:00 +0530https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-ars-technica-made-up-quotes/A sick, rushed reporter used ChatGPT’s rewording of a blog post instead of the real words. The story was up for less than two hours.