AI and journalism

The Chicago Times publishes a Summer Reading list of 15 books. 5 of which were actual books. The other 10 books were complete fabrications from AI.

I’d say the 10 books are fiction, but that just gets punny and confusing. The content was created with generative AI and AI said- “I got you,” and chose to hallucinate up a bunch of nonexistent books. 

I think we got here because people aren’t reading enough books. 

NPR | How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers