It's ironic that the importance of a "free press" is drilled into society by - guess who - the press. While the ability to speak freely is crucial, what the press does with their freedom suggests that they don't deserve it. Or at very least they certainly don't deserve extra protections for journalists that allow them greater leeway than ordinary citizens.

The new AI trend has an interesting faux science bent. Very faux, actually. ChatGPT has this nasty habit of completely fabricating references to scientific papers. In artificial language terminology, this is known as "hallucinating": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halluc..._intelligence)

More details on this in a Hacker News discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841672

And here is a Twitter thread in which a physicist queries ChatGPT about a topic on which she wrote her doctoral dissertation: https://twitter.com/paniterka_ch/sta...93718214901760 . ChatGPT fabricated convincing-looking scientific papers out of thin air, complete with fake DOIs.