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Updates on the Chicago Sun-Times' AI-Generated Summer Reading List Disaster

How it happened and where the paper goes next.

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Parker Molloy
May 23, 2025
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Earlier this week, I wrote about the Chicago Sun-Times publishing an AI-generated summer reading list full of nonexistent books.

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