Last weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times published a Summer Reading Roundup comprised of a bunch of AI-hallucinated content.
According to Substack author and book publicist/marketer Kathleen Schmidt, “Most of the books on the list don’t exist and were not written by the authors mentioned in the piece. Isabel Allende didn’t write “Tidewater Dreams.” Rumaan Alam didn’t write “The Longest Day.” Rebecca Makkai didn’t write “Boiling Point.” Those books don’t exist. Maggie O’Farrell didn’t write “Migrations” (Charlotte McConaghy did)…
The list also ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer, according to Schmidt.