Ouch! Current AI assistants often corrupt documents. Sounds like an intern you can’t trust — once again. A trillion dollar investment in sca…

Ouch! Current AI assistants often corrupt documents. Sounds like an intern you can’t trust — once again. A trillion dollar investment in scaling hasn’t solved this. New Microsoft paper shows that current AI assistants often damage documents during long editing jobs. Even the frontier models still ended up corrupting about 25% of document content on average, while many other models damaged far more. The problem is that delegated AI work only …

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-04-30