Journalists at Chicago Newspaper "Deeply Disturbed" That "Disaster" AI Slop Was Printed Alongside Their Real Work

Writers at The Chicago Sun-Times, a daily newspaper owned by Chicago Public Media, are speaking out following the paper's publishing of AI-generated misinformation, urging that the "disaster" content threatens the paper's reputation and hard-earned reader trust. The Sun-Times came under fire this week after readers called attention to a "summer reading list" published in the paper's weekend edition that recommended books that turned out to be completely nonexistent. The books were all attributed to real, well-known authors, but ten out of the 15 listed titles didn't actually exist. When 404 Media got in touch with the bylined author, he confirmed he'd used AI to drum up the list. But the writer said he hadn't double-checked the accuracy of the AI-generated reading list. The list was just one small piece of a 64-page "Heat Index" guide to summer, which, as the Sun-Times noted in its response to Futurism and others, had been provided by a third-party — not by the Sun-Times' own newsroo ... Read full article.