The Chicago newspaper prints the summer reading list. The problem? Books are not present

Good luck capturing books on Unofficial summer reading menu From Chicago Sun Times.

Hoping to go into the “multi -generations” epic Tidewater Dreams Written by Isabelle Alindy, for example? Continue dream. Perhaps a story that depends on science like Andi Ware The last algorithm Is your taste more? The algorithm cannot help you.

Well, what about “The Story of Installation in Min Jin Lee in the Earth’s Earth Economy Economy”, ” Nightshade market? Sorry – all you will find is the shade.

This is because, although the authors may be real, the books are not already present. Chicago Sun Times Online roasting To spread the list created from artificial intelligence. Initially, the paper could not explain how to spread the piece.

“We are looking at how this is printing and we are talking. It is not a liberal content and has not been created by, or his approval of the Sun-Times news room. We appreciate your confidence in our reports and take this matter seriously. More information will be provided soon.” He wrote on the social media platform on Tuesday morning.

In a statement by CBC News, Victor Lim, a spokesman for Chicago Sun Times, explained that the annex was “a licensed editing content of King’s features, a Hearst unit, which was not created by SUN-Time news room.”

“But it is unacceptable to any content that we offer to our readers is inaccurate,” he added.

King features are an American content product. Lim explained that the newspaper has historically relied on content partners to obtain wider coverage that mainly exceeds its domestic scope, but “given the recent developments, it is clear that we must evaluate new operations and partnerships actively.”

In a statement by CBC News, The Sun-Times Guild-the union that represents the editorial staff in the newspaper-confirmed that the summer guide was a common section that was produced externally “without knowing our newsroom members.”

The union wrote: “We are very disturbed that the content created by artificial intelligence was printed next to our work. The fact that it was sixty pages of this” content “is very worrying-in the first place of our relationship with our fans, and also for the jurisdiction of our union,” the union wrote.

“Our members are making our great efforts to build confidence with our sources and societies and fear this participation in decline. Our readers have registered in the work that was reported strongly and achieved, and we hate the idea that our paper can spread this in the future in the future.”

Real authors, fake books

On Tuesday morning, social media users began to share the “Heat Index” from the Chicago Sun-Times team on May 18. It was included in the “Summer Reading List for 2025”, described as “15 titles, new and old, and promised to provide the perfect summer escape.”

The problem, as readers were quick to point out, is that most books in the menu are fake.

“From the books mentioned in this reading list, Brit Bennett, ISABEL ALENEDE, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O’Farrell, Percival Evertt and Dela Owens’ are all not present books !!!” books Bluesky Bracken Macleod user.

In fact, the rapid search for the 15 books on the list shows that Nine is simply not present. American Chilean author Alindy, for example, wrote Dozens of booksBut none of them is called Tidewater Dreams. (CBC News could not find any fictional book with this title, in fact).

The one has been praised in its books Free food for millions and Pachinko (Final for the National Book Award), but he did not write anything called Nightshade market (Not anyone else, which can be told by CBC news).

Lovers of best -selling books, Taylor Jenkins Red, who also appears in the list, can easily tell you about the author of the book “Exalted” Daisy Jones and six and The seven couples from Evelyn Hugo Nothing was written College piece.

His book is attributed to Maggie Ovarer MigrationIt appears by describing it to be composed by Charlotte McCOCHALA.

There are some books called Salt and honey, The tenth book is on the list, but it was not written Salt and honey It is actually “in Utah’s salt apartments,” says the attachment.

Only the last four books are in the list of 15 real, and the correct authors formulated them.

But … how?

According to the Technical Press Company 404 mediaThe menu was created by Marco BoskagliaChicago -based writer, content strategy and teacher. He emphasized that he was partially created by artificial intelligence.

“I use artificial intelligence sometimes but always check the material first. This time, I did not do and I cannot believe that I missed it, because it is very clear. There are no excuses,” he told 404. “I have 100 percent and I am completely embarrassing.”

Some social media users He said it appears Other articles in the heat index It may also be created, pointing to experts who do not seem to be present. For example, the screenshots of an article entitled “Trends Summer Food Trends” are quoted as the Anthropology named Catherine Forest of the University of Cornell, which cannot be found on the Internet.

Another screenshot of an article appears to be a “campus culture culture” that quotes a professor in entertainment studies that are clearly clearly, cannot be tracked online.

Amnesty International can make mistakes. They are called hallucinations – errors that occur when the system lacks sufficient context.

the New York Times I mentioned earlier this month that artificial intelligence hallucinations are getting worse instead of better, as it produces incorrect information often as “Amnesty International Robots associated with search engines like Google and Bing sometimes generate wrong search results.”

“An educational moment”

This is not the first time that the media has been exposed to the use of content created by artificial intelligence. Sports photographerFor example, the headlines are published in 2023 According to what was reported using the authors born of artificial intelligence. News port CNET had to issue a number of major corrections In the same year after using artificial intelligence to help write its stories.

And who can forget the time he claims An article from Microsoft created by artificial intelligence Utawa Foods recommended as a tourist lunch location?

like NPR reportsThe fake summer reading list for Sun-Times was published two months after the newspaper announced that 20 percent of its employees had accepted acquisitions.

In an official statement on Tuesday afternoon TuesdayThe Chicago Sun Times said that the content partner confirmed that the independent had used artificial intelligence to write the article, and that this “should be an educational moment for all the press that our work is estimated.”

The article is removed from digital versions, according to the statement, which admitted that the list was published in other newspapers. He said that the paper was updating its policies “to ensure that all the licensed editing content from the third party meets the same editorial standards as the content we create ourselves.”