Senior European journalist suspended for publishing AI-generated quotes

Investigation found fabricated quotes in articles, investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC.

Article corpus contained fabricated quotes 15 of 53 articles written for two Mediahuis websites.

Quotes were inserted into articles dozens of fabricated quotes reported.

Sources confirmed they never made the attributed statements, seven cited individuals contacted by the paper.

Peter Vandermeersch was temporarily suspended from his role temporary role as fellow in journalism and society at the European publishing group.