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Most media content about AI today read like supermarket tabloids…sensational, shallow, and often misleading. They can confuse more than they clarify. The reasons are many: clickbait incentives, genuine ignorance, and biased enthusiasm from those selling AI products. Most of the authors of these articles have never taken a foundational computer science course, have never written code, and have never run AI software. Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence.