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Polymarket’s AI is Feeding Users Fabricated Information

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By Tory Lysik Verified
| Columbia Journalism Review Verified
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Polymarket, a betting website where users can place wagers on current events, publishes AI-generated news timelines on its website that are saturated with hallucinations ranging from misrepresentations and misattribution of news to outright fabricated references to nonexistent news stories, a Tow Center for Digital Journalism analysis finds.
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Scraper Factories

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By Tory Lysik Verified, C.J. Robinson
| Columbia Journalism Review Verified
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It can feel more difficult than ever for journalists to find data: FOIA requests go unanswered, government dashboards are taken down, and public databases get quietly archived. In some cases, no datasets exist at all. Increasingly, reporters are left to collect and create their own data.  Systematically collecting data from across the web, a process known as scraping, is a common solution.
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How politicians and the press battle for eyeballs.

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By Tory Lysik Verified, Dhrumil Mehta Verified
| Columbia Journalism Review Verified
Last month, in CJR's new Journalism 2050 issue, Kyle Paoletta described a model of political communication that might be called " direct to consumer." The "internet election" of 2008, he wrote, evolved into the "Twitter election" of 2016 and eventually the "podcast election" of 2024. Whatever the next election will be called, one thing is clear: American politicians are increasingly bypassing traditional media gatekeepers and speaking directly to constituents.
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