Instead of the meticulously reported summer entertainment coverage the Sun-Times staff has published for years, these pages were filled with innocuous general content: hammock instructions, summer recipes, smartphone advice … and a list of 15 books to read this summer.
Of those 15 recommended books by 15 authors, 10 titles and descriptions were false, or invented out of whole cloth. Sixteen hours later, the journalist behind the piece ‘fessed up: rather than a reported recommendation list, this one had been generated by an AI agent.
Lessons (and an apology) from the Sun-Times CEO on that AI-generated book list – Chicago Sun-Times