Major Papers Publish AI-Hallucinated Summer Reading List Of Non-existent Books – IOTW Report

Major Papers Publish AI-Hallucinated Summer Reading List Of Non-existent Books

Zero Hedge:

In an embarrassing episode that will help aggravate society’s uneasy relationship with artificial intelligence, the Chicago Sun-TimesPhiladelphia Inquirer and other newspapers around the country published a summer-reading list where most of the books were entirely made up by ChatGPT

The article was licensed content provided by King Features Syndicate, a subsidiary of Hearst Newspapers. Initial reporting of the bogus list focused on the Sun-Times, which two months earlier announced that 20% of its staff had accepted buyouts as the paper staggers under a dying business model. However, several other newspapers also ran the syndicated article, which was part of a package of summer-themed content called “Heat Index.”   more here

14 Comments on Major Papers Publish AI-Hallucinated Summer Reading List Of Non-existent Books

  1. This is slightly more sophisticated than “Under the Bleachers, by Seymour Butts”. Media twits are so easily gulled when something fits their preconceptions, a deadline approaches and they are lazy.

    Call me when AI starts writing whole books, and DEI doctoral candidates start plagiarizing them. I expect that call soon, as we descend into idiocracy while AI rises.

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  2. @Thirdtwin

    In addition to “Under the Bleachers” by Seymour Butts, we must never forget the classic: “The Open Pajama”, by Seymour Teats.

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