Top US newspapers recommended 15 books. Only five of them were real
Readers of two of America's leading newspapers must have been puzzled when trying to track down the best summer reads recommended in the books section.
A list run in the Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer advertised The Rainmakers by the Pulitzer prizewinner Percival Everett and Tidewater Dreams by the Chilean-American author Isabel Allende. Neither book actually exists; they were among ten invented for the list generated by artificial intelligence.
The Sun-Times has apologised and said the content was provided by a syndicating service and was not checked before being published in the newspaper.
Marco Buscaglia, the creator of the list, confirmed to the tech news website 404 Media that he had used AI. 'I do use AI for background at times but always check
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