A major report on modernizing the education system in Newfoundland and Labrador is peppered with fake sources some educators say were likely fabricated by generative artificial intelligence (AI). Released last month, the Education Accord NL final report, a 10-year roadmap for improving the province’s public schools and post-secondary institutions, includes …
Read More »Planned presentation to U.S. vaccine advisory panel cited a study that doesn’t exist
A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, according to the scientist listed as the study’s author. The report, titled “Thimerosal as a …
Read More »Chicago newspaper prints a summer reading list. The problem? The books don’t exist
Good luck picking up the books on an unofficial summer reading list from the Chicago Sun-Times. Hoping to delve into the “multigenerational saga” Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende, for instance? Keep dreaming. Maybe a science-driven story like Andy Weir’s The Last Algorithm is more to your taste? The algorithm can’t help you. OK then, how about …
Read More »This foreign worker says he paid his own wages for a cook position that didn’t exist
This story is a collaboration between CBC News and the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF). A national restaurant company is dropping one of its Ontario franchisees after a foreign worker alleges he paid his own wages for a cook position that didn’t exist. Quebec-based MTY Food Group says it has given …
Read More »‘Live and exist’: Prison libraries are important for inmates, advocates say – Winnipeg
A Winnipeg group is working to ensure people who are incarcerated in Manitoba have access to books, to help people who are incarcerated start a new chapter. On Wednesday, Winnipeg’s prison libraries committee (PLC) was busy unboxing, sorting and packing hundreds of books donated by the community. Many will appear …
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