The AI Daily Brief · Sunday, July 26, 2026
Ethan Mollick shared an experience where AI models, including GPT-5.6 Soul and Codex, meticulously reviewed his new book PDF, chasing down 195 references. He noted the AI's accuracy, with no hallucinations, but found it to be overly nitpicky, highlighting the management aspect of working with AI.
“The AI worked for 30 minutes, chased down 195 references and gave me pages of notes that would have taken a team of researchers many hours.”
“One sign of how far AIs have come is that every one of the AI's notes was accurate and there were no hallucinated page numbers, no invented text, no errors I could spot at all.”
“In fact, I had the opposite issue. The AI was incredibly nitpicky.”