Magazines are even worse --- David Pogue claimed Steve Jobs used Windows 95 on a ThinkPad in one of his columns, when a moment's reflection, and a check of the approved models list at NeXT would have made it obvious it was running NeXTstep.

Even books aren't immune, a recent book on a tool cabinet held up as an example of perfection:

https://lostartpress.com/products/virtuoso

mis-spells H.O. Studley's name on the inside front cover "Henery" as well as making many other typos, myriad bad breaks, pedestrian typesetting which poorly presents numbers and dimensions (failing to use the multiplication symbol or primes) and that they are unwilling to fix a duplicated photo is enshrined in the excerpt which they publish online:

https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/vir...

where what should be photo of an iconic pair of jewelers pliers on pg. 70 is replaced with that of a pair of flat pliers from pg. 142. (any reputable publisher would have done a cancel and fixed that)

Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap, and I would be a far less grey, and far younger person if I had back all the time and energy I spent fixing files mangled by Adobe Illustrator, or where the wrong typesetting tool was used for the job (the six-weeks re-setting the book re-set by the vendor in Quark XPress when it needed to be in LaTeX was the longest of my life).

EDIT: by extension, I guess it's now 90% of everything is AI-generated crap, 90% of what's left is traditional crap, leaving 1% of worthwhile stuff.

It was, in part, Springer that enabled Robert Maxwell.

I think "confabulated" is more appropriate: "To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts."

And maybe the authors were over-confident in the capabilities of current AI.

I agree, if we are using the current idea of AI as language models.

But that’s very limiting. I’m old enough to remember when AI meant everything a human could do. Not just some subset that is being deceptively marketed as potentially the whole thing.