With a Shovel of Salt: AI Success Stories and the Retraction Gap
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeFeaturedAi EthicsScience EthicsAi RegulationNhsWith a Shovel of Salt: AI Success Stories and the Retraction GapAI success stories regularly appear in the media. But there is a multidimensional gap between the reported success and retraction: A gap in time, a discrepancy in attention and the influence both have over decisions: the “retraction gap”.IntroductionFor the industry, there is a lot at stake. Some of those success stories have later been questions, or outright found to be misleading or false.
- ▪Press enter or click to view image in full sizeFeaturedAi EthicsScience EthicsAi RegulationNhsWith a Shovel of Salt: AI Success Stories and the Retraction GapAI success stories regularly appear in the media.
- ▪But there is a multidimensional gap between the reported success and retraction: A gap in time, a discrepancy in attention and the influence both have over decisions: the “retraction gap”.IntroductionFor the industry, there is a lot at stak
- ▪Some of those success stories have later been questions, or outright found to be misleading or false.
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| Publication time | Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:14:06 +0000 |
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Press enter or click to view image in full sizeFeaturedAi EthicsScience EthicsAi RegulationNhsWith a Shovel of Salt: AI Success Stories and the Retraction GapAI success stories regularly appear in the media. Their retractions later receive comparably little attention, while their impact persists.Wolfgang Hauptfleisch9 min read·4 hours ago--ListenShareEver since generative AI has become all the rage, the media has been flooded with success stories: Breakthroughs in science, improved results in education, a more efficient health system, increased productivity in enterprise.Some of these stories have later been retracted.
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