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The Chicago Sun-Times published summer book recommendations – written by AI. A third of the titles don’t actually exist. NPR’s Elizabeth Blair has the full story on what happened.

Summary

  • Fake summer reading list published in newspapers.
  • Books by renowned authors like Isabel Allende and Percival Everett were made up.
  • Only 5 out of 15 titles on the list were real books.

posted 26.5.2025 by oler · AI & Journalism

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