{"id":245,"date":"2025-05-20T21:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2025-05-20T21:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:28:28","slug":"beware-the-ai-fabu-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/beware-the-ai-fabu-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the AI-fabu-list!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times published a Summer Reading Roundup comprised of a bunch of AI-hallucinated content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Substack author and book publicist\/marketer  <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@kathleenschmidt\">Kathleen Schmidt<\/a>, &#8220;Most of the books on the list don\u2019t exist and were not written by the authors mentioned in the piece. Isabel Allende didn\u2019t write \u201cTidewater Dreams.\u201d Rumaan Alam didn\u2019t write \u201cThe Longest Day.\u201d Rebecca Makkai didn\u2019t write \u201cBoiling Point.\u201d Those books don\u2019t exist. Maggie O\u2019Farrell didn\u2019t write \u201cMigrations\u201d (Charlotte McConaghy did)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list also ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer, <a href=\"https:\/\/kathleenschmidt.substack.com\/p\/the-curious-case-of-the-ai-generated?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=428522&amp;post_id=164022299&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=13ly5&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\">according to Schmidt<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;Most of the books on the list don\u2019t exist and were not written by the authors mentioned in the piece. Isabel Allende didn\u2019t write \u201cTidewater Dreams.\u201d Rumaan Alam didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hallucinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}