>A senior journalist at the Mediahaus group, **publisher of the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent**, has been suspended after it emerged he used quotes fabricated by AI.
>Peter Vandermeersch, **who served as chief executive for Mediahaus’ Ireland branch from 2022 to 2025**, took up a role as the company’s first ‘Journalism and Society’ fellow and had been publishing a newsletter covering the practice of journalism.
>After a Dutch news outlet reported that some of the quotes included in the newsletter had never been said by the people to whom they were attributed, he admitted on his personal blog that he had used large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Even more reason to distrust the Indo these days?
smashedspuds on
How do they prove this ?
qwerty_1965 on
There’s nothing intrinsically Indo/Sindo about this, they’re all using AI. The Irish Times ran an opinion article which was entirely AI
For someone of his experience to have blind trust in ai…
When you use it for something you know a lot about it, chatgpt returns total garbage. Yet people trust it for things they don’t know anything about.Â
Maybe the only useful thing chatgpt will do is show up all the chancersÂ
SoloWingPixy88 on
hahah… wow….haha.
Peter is not just a senior Journalist, he’s or was a senior exec and the No1 for mediahuis in Ireland. They removed him from the mediahuis leadership page
>Peter Vandermeersch, former Editor-in-Chief and director of the Dutch news media group NRC Media, was appointed Publisher and **member of the Mediahuis Ireland Executive Committee** in 2019, before becoming **CEO in August 2022.** As Publisher from 2019 to 2022, Mr. Vandermeersch shaped the long term strategy for Mediahuis Ireland’s news titles, overseeing the digital transformation of its news brands, advancing the development of its print publications, and leading overall brand positioning, experience that uniquely prepared him to take on the company’s top role.
>Since becoming **CEO**, Vandermeersch has made digital transformation and subscriber growth his core priorities, guiding Mediahuis Ireland to surpass 100,000 digital subscribers for the first time. He is now driving an ambitious plan to double digital subscriptions to 200,000 within five years, further underlining his commitment to innovation and growth. Vandermeersch brings a nearly thirty year journalism career spanning Brussels, Paris, New York, Amsterdam and served as  editor in chief of Belgium’s De Standaard before joining NRC in 2010. His international perspective and track record of newsroom leadership have positioned Mediahuis Ireland at the forefront of the industry’s digital future.
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TheJournal.ie suspends journalist for misspelling Mediahuis
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>A senior journalist at the Mediahaus group, **publisher of the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent**, has been suspended after it emerged he used quotes fabricated by AI.
>Peter Vandermeersch, **who served as chief executive for Mediahaus’ Ireland branch from 2022 to 2025**, took up a role as the company’s first ‘Journalism and Society’ fellow and had been publishing a newsletter covering the practice of journalism.
>After a Dutch news outlet reported that some of the quotes included in the newsletter had never been said by the people to whom they were attributed, he admitted on his personal blog that he had used large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Even more reason to distrust the Indo these days?
How do they prove this ?
There’s nothing intrinsically Indo/Sindo about this, they’re all using AI. The Irish Times ran an opinion article which was entirely AI
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/14/irish-times-apologises-for-hoax-ai-article-about-womens-use-of-fake-tan#:~:text=The%20article%20ran%20under%20the,%2C%20will%20learn%20and%20adapt.%E2%80%9D
Crazy stuff.Â
For someone of his experience to have blind trust in ai…
When you use it for something you know a lot about it, chatgpt returns total garbage. Yet people trust it for things they don’t know anything about.Â
Maybe the only useful thing chatgpt will do is show up all the chancersÂ
hahah… wow….haha.
Peter is not just a senior Journalist, he’s or was a senior exec and the No1 for mediahuis in Ireland. They removed him from the mediahuis leadership page
>Peter Vandermeersch, former Editor-in-Chief and director of the Dutch news media group NRC Media, was appointed Publisher and **member of the Mediahuis Ireland Executive Committee** in 2019, before becoming **CEO in August 2022.** As Publisher from 2019 to 2022, Mr. Vandermeersch shaped the long term strategy for Mediahuis Ireland’s news titles, overseeing the digital transformation of its news brands, advancing the development of its print publications, and leading overall brand positioning, experience that uniquely prepared him to take on the company’s top role.
>Since becoming **CEO**, Vandermeersch has made digital transformation and subscriber growth his core priorities, guiding Mediahuis Ireland to surpass 100,000 digital subscribers for the first time. He is now driving an ambitious plan to double digital subscriptions to 200,000 within five years, further underlining his commitment to innovation and growth. Vandermeersch brings a nearly thirty year journalism career spanning Brussels, Paris, New York, Amsterdam and served as  editor in chief of Belgium’s De Standaard before joining NRC in 2010. His international perspective and track record of newsroom leadership have positioned Mediahuis Ireland at the forefront of the industry’s digital future.
TheJournal.ie suspends journalist for misspelling Mediahuis
He deserves it, as well as everyone who uses AI