Well, I can see how that could happen, and in fact, copy-paste artifacts and unintended summaries/hallucinations have happened to me when grabbing output back from an LLM.

Here’s the thing though: I catch it 100% of the time because my writing has version control and I compare diffs. When dealing with something that can exist as plain text, there isn’t a good reason not to have that setup. I’m no journalist, but it blows my mind that writers who deal specifically in reported facts apparently don’t have systems in place to idiot-proof and preserve their sources of truth.

I get it, at some point back in the analog days there were more editors and copywriters that actually verified these things, and those jobs were sacrificed at the altar of capitalism. I’ve seen writing quality on the web take a downturn as a result. But for fuck’s sake y’all, maybe do the bare minimum and start implementing safeguards before you let your writers use inherently lossy tools?