{"id":28251,"date":"2025-05-21T19:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28251"},"modified":"2025-05-21T20:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:29:49","slug":"a-i-generated-reading-list-in-chicago-sun-times-recommends-nonexistent-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28251","title":{"rendered":"A.I.-Generated Reading List in Chicago Sun-Times Recommends Nonexistent Books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A summer reading insert recommended made-up titles by real authors such as Isabel Allende and Delia Owens. The Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer have apologized.<\/p>\n

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The summer reading list tucked into a special section of The Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer seemed innocuous enough.<\/p>\n

There were books by beloved authors such as Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee; novels by best sellers including Delia Owens, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Brit Bennett; and a novel by Percival Everett, a recent Pulitzer Prize winner.<\/p>\n

There was just one issue: None of the book titles attributed to the above authors were real. They had been created by generative artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest case of bad A.I. making its way into the news. While generative A.I. has improved, there is still no way to ensure the systems produce accurate information. A.I. chatbots cannot distinguish between what is true and what is false<\/a>, and they often make things up. The chatbots can spit out information and expert names with an air of authority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Most of the book descriptions were fairly believable. It didn\u2019t seem out of reach that Ms. Bennett would \u201cexplore family bonds tested by natural disasters,\u201d or that Ms. Allende would pen another \u201cmultigenerational saga.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A summer reading insert recommended made-up titles by real authors such as Isabel Allende and Delia Owens. The Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer have apologized.The summer reading list tucked into a special section of The Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer seemed innocuous enough.There were books by beloved authors such as Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee; novels by best sellers including Delia Owens, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Brit Bennett; and a novel by Percival Everett, a recent Pulitzer Prize winner.There was just one issue: None of the book titles attributed to the above authors were real. They had been created by generative artificial intelligence.It\u2019s the latest case of bad A.I. making its way into the news. While generative A.I. has improved, there is still no way to ensure the systems produce accurate information. A.I. chatbots cannot distinguish between what is true and what is false, and they often make things up. The chatbots can spit out information and expert names with an air of authority.Most of the book descriptions were fairly believable. It didn\u2019t seem out of reach that Ms. Bennett would \u201cexplore family bonds tested by natural disasters,\u201d or that Ms. Allende would pen another \u201cmultigenerational saga.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28253,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28254,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28251\/revisions\/28254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}