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

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

The Chicago Sun-Times Published an AI-Generated Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books — And This is Just the Beginning

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May 20
The Chicago Sun-Times Published an AI-Generated Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books — And This is Just the Beginning

The Chicago Sun-Times just published a summer reading list with one major problem: most of the books don't exist. Titles like Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende and The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir sound plausible enough, but they're completely fictional—fabricated by AI and published without anyone catching the error. Of the fifteen books recommended in…

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