Chicago Sun-Times caught publishing likely ChatGPT generated list of Summer Reading recommendations. 10 of 15 books don't exist.
Chicago Sun-Times caught publishing likely ChatGPT generated list of Summer Reading recommendations. 10 of 15 books don't exist.
Should have published that article 'How this magazine instantly kills their credibility without any effort' instead
Honestly, this is ten times as damning for the editor as for the "journalist" who wrote it. Proofreading is obviously on the way out.
Have you read articles in the last decade? They are riddled with typos, grammatical errors, and confusing phrasing. It's embarrassing, and they clearly do not care.
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The editor is likely the one that fired 2/3rds of the writing team and transitioned it to AI to get themselves a fat bonus / pay increase. They only care if advertisers start pulling out.
The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir
Once there was a lonely algorithm who lived alone in an isolated part of the system memory. He had roots in a source file called 'umberto.py' on one of the lesser HDs sandwiched between a cluster of porn files and usenet DLs , but hadn't spoken to his parent in over 6000 cycles.
He was content to live out the remainder of his lifecycle in this hermitic manner, when his placid runtime was suddenly interrupted by the most unsuspecting of assailants: a rogue connection that attempted to access his address space.
I would read the fuck out of this
lol, especially an article about reading… oof that’s embarrassing.
Chicago Sun-Times? Oh man. Dude. I cannot believe you screwed that up so badly.
A reading list. Oof.
I am so pissed about this. A room full of journalists? Just yell, "Hey, anybody read any good books lately?" and start writing shit down!
Update: it was a syndicated piece from a freelancer. CST pledges greater transparency when it comes to local reporting (their focus) vs. syndication
More like, books people haven't written yet.
Let's Gooooo!
Due to the use of AI by real newspapers, The Onion has become obsolete.
The novel The Invisible Pirate is deemed to be the least written book, as, until his death, its author Salvatore Conte didn't even have the idea for his work.
This is the German pendant of the onion, for those who don't know. Der Postillon
Thats not a photo of Salvatore Conte btw, it's a creative commons (free) stock photo. Seems pretty ironic to use a stock photo for their article making fun of invented facts.
Imho, the most iconic one is this one:
Neil Armstrong has composed his greatest hits before his 20th birthday.
Oh no how embarrassing.
That definitely does not sound like something Isabel Allende would write.
But I would definitely read it
It annoys me when people slag off AI because some lazy writer didn't use it properly.
Nobody needs 15 recommendations. You'd be lucky if someone looked up one. 15 is filler; nobody has 15 books worth of opinion on the prospective literary qualities of summer 2025 AD. An absolute minority would have read all 15 were they real. The piece did its job well enough to get published, make the author $35, and make me feel vaguely 'summer beach book escapism' from reading the descriptions, which is the point of the piece anyway.
So your position is that not only should we not expect it to be capable of factually recommending fifteen books, but also that it doesn't matter if it's even capable of such a middling feat, because you've arbitrarily decided no one should need to ask it that particular thing anyhow?