A.I.-Generated Reading List in Chicago Sun-Times Recommends Nonexistent Books

A.I.-Generated Reading List in Chicago Sun-Times Recommends Nonexistent Books

The summer reading list tucked into a special section of The Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer seemed innocuous enough.

There were books by beloved authors such as Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee; novels by best sellers including Delia Owens, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Brit Bennett; and a novel by Percival Everett, a recent Pulitzer Prize winner.

There was just one issue: None of the book titles attributed to the above authors were real. They had been created by generative artificial…

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