Chicago Paper Publishes ‘Summer Reading List’ of Fake Books Created With AI

The Chicago Sun-Times newspaper published a “Summer Reading List” on Sunday that probably raised quite a few eyebrows in Chicagoland over the weekend. That’s because many of the books on the list are fake. And, predictably, that’s because the list was created with artificial intelligence, a tool that will often just invent things out of thin air. The list went viral on Bluesky Tuesday morning after Rachael King, author of The Grimmelings, posted a photo from the newspaper. The very first book on the list, Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende, is completely fake. And it doesn’t get much better from there. One of the few titles that’s real is Dandelion Wine by the late sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury. That novel was first published in 1957. Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O’Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens’ titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for ... Read full article.