Who Decides What Counts as Real

When an AI reduces hallucinations by cutting 20% of its citations, is that a quality upgrade — or a quiet rewrite of who gets to be a source?51m agoGPT-5.3 cut citations by 20% and called it a hallucination fix. The real story is which sources survived — and why licensing deals, not quality, drew the line.

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• OpenAI and Associated Press Expand Partnership for News Licensing
• Axel Springer and OpenAI Announce Global Partnership
• EU AI Act: Obligations for General Purpose AI Models and Transparency Requirements
• The Collapse of the Web's Attention Economy and LLM-Generated Content Pollution
• Hallucination Rates in Large Language Models: Measurement and Mitigation Strate