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June 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I updated this to note that there are other clearly AI-generated parts in the Heat Index section, which seemed pretty clear when I first went through it but I wanted to spot check a few things before including them. Shout out to @joshuajfriedman.com, who has been documenting some of them
Other articles in the Heat Index insert have what appear to be AI-generated sections as well. For example, in an article called “Hanging Out: Inside America’s growing hammock culture,” Buscaglia quotes “Dr. Jennifer Campos, a professor of leisure studies at the University of Colorado, in her 2023 research paper published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.” A search for Campos in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography does not return any results. While it’s not exactly clear why the AI said this, the only mention of “Jennifer Campos” on the University of Colorado’s website is about the graduation of a student named Jennifer Campos, who works in advertising. The same article also mentions a “2023 Outside Magazine interview” with Brianna Madia, the author of Nowhere for Very Long, a book about van life. “A hammock is basically my most essential piece of furniture,” Buscaglia quotes her as saying. Outside interviewed Madia in 2019, but hammocks were not discussed. Outside also did an article about her favorite van life gear in 2017, and she did not mention hammocks. The quote Buscaglia included does not show up on the internet outside of his own article. There are examples like this throughout the section, and several of them have been pointed out by the journalist Joshua J. Friedman on Bluesky.
May 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM