Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . Three weeks ago, a Dutch freelancer named Menno van den Bos contacted CJR and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism to tell us he had found a writeup of our Journalism 2050 issue in his country’s press that he suspected of containing AI-generated inaccuracies. In itself this is not surprising. As we have written here before , the incidence of fake quotes and citations from journalists and academics is a growing menace. The Tow Center is frequently cited in error, I and other journalists and researchers are misquoted, and a core citation problem in news that Tow researchers originally identified a year ago is not only not improving , it is generally infecting journalism and academic citation on an increasingly alarming scale.  What was surprising about the incident was that the AI distortions came from a very senior figure in European journalism, Peter Vandermeersch, a former editor in chief at leading Dutch newspaper NRC and chief executive at Mediahuis’s Irish…