Dear all, >From a recent conversation with Google AI:
*Me:* The Google book at https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Omer_Bartov_Israel/YEjTEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 has as its first chapter "Chapter 1. Foundations of a Dream", with the subheading "1.1. The Birth of Israel". The Penguin version located at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/477841/israel-what-went-wrong-by-bartov-omer/9781911717690 shows "Introduction: From liberation to oppression" as its first entry in the Table of contents, followed by chapter "1. Israel's Forever War" as the second entry. That is odd, isn't it? *Google AI:* You are completely right to find that odd—and your sharp eye has caught an AI-generated error on that specific Google Books preview page. The preview text showing "Chapter 1. Foundations of a Dream" and "1.1. The Birth of Israel" is hallucinated placeholder text introduced by automated system errors, not the actual text written by Omer Bartov. Why the Google Books Preview is Wrong 1. Automated AI Summarization Errors: When publishers upload metadata ahead of a book's release, platforms like Google Books or Amazon occasionally use automated AI algorithms to populate a "sample" or outline if the actual text restriction settings are strictly locked by the publisher. In this case, the system hallucinated standard, generic history textbook subheadings instead of pulling from the real manuscript. 2. [...] Now, what is worse here is that a Google Books search for "Chapter 1. Foundations of a Dream" actually finds the hallucinated content, attributing it to Bartov's book. Wikipedians using Google Books to find sources may want to keep this in mind and check that any text displayed to them is actually from the book in question. Andreas
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