Politiken (JP/Politikens Hus)

AI-generated fact box to the Harald Voetmann interview, Bøger section, Saturday 24 May 2025

Corrected · 24 May 2025

SectorMedia

CountryDenmark

Document typePrint and online newspaper fact box accompanying an author interview

ConsequenceCorrected

What was fabricated

6 discrete false statements in a single AI-generated fact box about the living author Harald Voetmann: (1) credited him with the book “Konkylier”; (2) credited him with “Vandmærket”, which is a short-story collection by Naja Marie Aidt; (3) said he had received Montanas Litteraturpris, which he had not; (4) said he won Kritikerprisen for “Helioskatastrofen”, which is a novel by Linda Boström Knausgård — he won it for “Alt under månen”; (5) misstated the citation for his Politiken Frit Flet prize; (6) dated his election to Det Danske Akademi to 2022 rather than 2021. Editor-in-chief Amalie Kestler confirmed the box was produced by an open search in the AI system Magna rather than by Politiken's archive-backed fact box tool, and was never fact-checked afterwards — “our guidelines have been broken”.

What happened as a result

Full correction appended to the head of the online article and a separate correction run by the Readers' Editor in the Monday 26 May 2025 print edition, itemising all six errors. Politiken management emailed all staff that internal AI guidelines were being reopened for revision; one tool in Magna was removed, others adjusted, and staff training strengthened.

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