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Publishers Say 'Fact-Checking Too Costly'

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the time-to-write-my-memoirs dept.

Mr. Ghost writes "Members of the book publishing industry say that profit margins are too small to fact check "non-fiction" books. Instead they rely on the "honesty" of the authors submitting the book. This has come to a head with the revelation from the author of "Million Little Pieces" that he lied about the accounts in his memoirs."

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  1. Wait a minute, this is Slashdot by pHatidic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't the headline read Publishers Admit Wikipedia is More Accurate Than Books?

  2. Too costly by ewg · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't even have time to fact-check this reply!

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  3. Re:AI people have a job to do.... by Repton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Already exists --- we just have to ask google.

    For example: "Global warming is true" --- 774 results. "Global warming is false" --- 352 results. Case closed!

    (in other controversial results, evolution wins by 76,000 to 21,000 and Santa Claus is clearly real.)

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