Iturned to my wife recently to ask her if she had heard that her favorite performer of all time, Bruce Springsteen, was launching what would be a shocking “farewell” tour after having just finished a multi-year, multi-continent tour.

She quickly raced to look but could find no sign of it. The reason I asked was a series of postings that appeared in my Facebook feed. It turns out those postings were some of the many, many false items purporting to be news that have shown up in the past couple of months. They’re produced using artificial intelligence.

I’ve written plenty about how our newsroom is using AI as a tool to go deeper and be more accurate in our journalism, but the other side to AI is the false material getting published all over the place as genuine. The fake stuff is called AI

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