Chapter 25 · Ten abstracts, one paragraph
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In the brief edition: Whether an AI summary of many texts is faithful
What was read, and when
- The exchange was recorded on 28 September 2026: one model by its API, the vendor's settings left as they came, no system prompt, a single turn, the ten abstracts pasted whole. Its companion went in a separate call the same day with the same ten.
- The ten texts: every twentieth row from the first of the two hundred abstracts on misinformation that one course gathered, its set of 1 September 2026.
- The course's probe of 3 September 2026: five takes an edition in one product's app, each in a fresh chat, the replies kept before they were judged; the five English replies read whole on 28 September 2026.
- The notes on the survey of 19 September 2026, and the notes on a writing test of the same day.
- Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (Sage, second edition, 2004), pp. 276, 330 and 349, read on 28 September 2026.
- The author's principles page, signed April 2026; it tells the typing of the vessel's name in the present tense, undated.
The sources are printed in the full edition, chapter by chapter, with the day each was read. This page prints the same list.