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Jun 9, 2026

When AI fabricates your quotes

Journalist and NYU professor Meredith Broussard shares how she was incorrectly quoted in a recent book on AI’s distorting effects on reality.

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File this under the definition of irony: last month, The New York Times reported that a high-profile new book, "The Future of Truth: How AI reshapes reality," includes several quotes that appear to be made up or misattributed. Author Steven Rosenbaum acknowledged he'd used AI in the writing process.

One of the quotes came, allegedly, from a book by data journalist and NYU professor Meredith Broussard. It was a critique of trusting algorithms to make decisions in medicine.

Here at “Marketplace Tech,” we have an unexpected connection to this story. We called up Broussard to discuss it.

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When AI fabricates your quotes