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Algorithms · May 2025

Major Newspapers Printed an AI-Hallucinated Summer Reading List

The Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer ran a syndicated summer reading list recommending books that do not exist. The writer admitted AI drafted it and he never fact-checked it. King Features fired him.

Source: NPR

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