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Bad Bunny’s hottest local Super Bowl pregame is at the Chicago Public Library
The library? Yes, the library is hosting a series for Chicagoans to learn about Puerto Rican history ahead of Bad Bunny’s historical Super Bowl halftime show performance this weekend.
By Ambar Colón Feb 3, 2026, 3:30am PST
Bad Bunny arrives at the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday.It’s a big week for Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny.
After making Grammy history as the first Spanish-language album of the year winner, the world’s most-streamed male artist is now prepping for his Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.
While many Chicagoans are getting ready to watch the halftime show from the bar or at home, the real local pregame is at the Chicago Public Library, which is hosting a cultural program that explores Puerto Rican history through music.
“Bad Bunny x Super Bowl: Beats and History”
When: 6 p.m. on Feb. 3 and 2 p.m. on Feb. 6
Where: West Belmont and Harold Washington branches
Tickets: Free with registration
Info: chipublib.bibliocommons.com
The event is a part of the library’s ongoing “One Book, One Chicago” initiative.
The “Puerto Rico x Bad Bunny: Beats & History” program covers the superstar singer’s collaborative work with Professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, the Midwest-based author of “Puerto Rico: A National History.” Here an audience listens to the program in October at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago’s Loop.More than 300 people have attended the virtual and in-person events at various Chicago Public Library branches, with folks tuning in from as far as New Jersey and Florida.
In the library program, Colón breaks down Puerto Rico’s long history of resistance to a soundtrack of songs from Bad Bunny’s “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” alongside musical movements that predate the singer.
The program incorporates the work of historian Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of “Puerto Rico: A National History.”
Meléndez-Badillo worked closely with Bad Bunny to create text-based music videos for each of the 17 tracks on “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.” The professor’s notes, written in Spanish only, detail the work and lives of several Puerto Rican individuals and important social justice movements in the archipelago’s history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9T_MGfzq7I
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GravitasA Newspaper Used AI To Generate a FAKE Book List
A Newspaper Used AI To Generate a FAKE Book List
PrinceAeneasI love the #ChicagoSunTimes . That said, is the A.I. debacle. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chicago-sun-admits-summer-book-guide-included-fake-ai-generated-titles-rcna208325
enough to consider ownership restructuring? Maybe a larger radio and newspaper umbrella?
To be fair, the Sun Times is my fourth go to. My first three are #KNOW , the #PioneerPress and... The Star Tribune of course. I feel like Sun Times and Pioneer Press are natural allies though. Think of the down in the depths regional coverage you could do.
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseChicago Sun-Times: Special section with fake book list plagued with additional errors, Sun-Times review finds. “A review by the Sun-Times newsroom of the 64-page special section found the errors extended far beyond the mostly fake summer reading list, with more misinformation plaguing other articles in the edition. The newsroom fact-checked all 10 stories with named sources and each of the […]
Aubreader MastoChicago Sun-Times Sunday insert contains 10 AI-generated fake books in summer reading list
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/sun-times-sunday-insert-fake-books/
The special section inserted into the Sunday Chicago Sun-Times featured fun summer activities, including a list of 15 books, most of which do not exist.
Warner CrockerA deeper and more troubling story than initially thought.
Yes, There’s More on The Chicago Sun-Times AI Flap
#Chicago #AI #ChicagoSunTimes #journalism #media
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/05/30/yes-theres-more-on-the-chicago-sun-times-ai-flap/
It’s AI. It’s “human mistakes.” it’s bean counting.
It’s a mess.
Yes, There’s More on The Chicago Sun-Times AI Flap
#AI #ChicagoSunTimes #Media #journalism #tech #Chicago
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/05/30/yes-theres-more-on-the-chicago-sun-times-ai-flap/
Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3Yes, There’s More on The Chicago Sun-Times AI Flap
You probably remember last week’s adventure in AI and The Chicago Sun-Times. A special section featuring summer activities called The Heat Index included a traditional list of fifteen books for summer reading. Ten of the books didn’t exist, even though they are listed as being written by actual authors. Yes, AI was the culprit. But so too were the humans.
Well, it turns out there’s more to the story. Other parts of The Heat Index also included things like quotes from folks who claim they never made them and in the case of one chef was never solicited for an interview. The Sun-Times began checking the Heat Index and discovered 10 stories they checked all had similar erroneous sources, some phony, and multiple errors and information that couldn’t be verified.
The digging also unveiled that similar errors existed in past special supplements put together by King Features, a division of Hearts Corp, the newspaper published. The Sun-Times typically does about 10 such special supplements a year.
Here are some examples from the latest article describing the scenario:
One of the first stories in the summer section, touted as “a look at the hammock boom,” quoted several people who may not exist, or at least are not who Buscaglia said they were.
For example, a Ryan Leidecker was described as a product line manager at Eagles Nest Outfitters. The company said Leidecker is not an employee nor ever has been.
Buscaglia also cited a Dr. Jennifer Campos as professor of leisure studies at the University of Colorado. The university says it has no record of an employee named Jennifer Campos.
The story quoted Campos as saying a “hammock has become this generation’s equivalent of the Frisbee on the quad,” from her “2023 research paper published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.” A search of her name in the journal yielded nothing.
In the same story, Mark Ellison is identified as an employee at Great Smoky Mountains National Park and warns about the damage that “improper hammock hanging techniques” can do to trees, with Buscaglia noting the information appeared on the park’s website.
Ellison posted on Facebook that he was not an employee of the park and said no such thing. The national park confirmed to the Sun-Times that Ellison does not work there and that there is no such information about hammocks on its website.
Also cited in the DIY article was a 2024 Wired magazine story by a tech writer named Brian Kahn, about setting up an outdoor movie area in your backyard. Wired told the Sun-Times that Kahn has not written for the publication and the quote was inaccurate.
The author of the content, Mark Buscaglia, did come clean about using AI and his failure to fact check. The Sun-Times has also come clean and said that no Sun-Times employees proofed the content before publishing it under its own banner.
What’s interesting, though not surprising, is The Sun-Times reasoning for how it got into this mess. Using King Features and not Sun-Times staff to prepare the supplements was, as you would expect, a cost-saving move according to Chicago Public Media’s CEO Melissa Bell, who also called the episode a series of “human mistakes.”
Here’s another quote:
Bell said the decision to buy special sections from King Features — which predated her arrival at CPM last year — was a “creative solution to keep hitting revenue goals while we transition from print to digital revenue.” She said she had no objection: “I didn’t deeply investigate the editions, and quickly approved the team to continue the practice in place. My reasoning: let’s not sacrifice any revenue.”
As a side note to this story, and pointing to the bigger picture human mistakes I think all of these AI companies have made, it seems to me that a lot of these kind of error prone mistakes or hallucinations — too easily overlooked by most humans — could easily be rectified if the AI output included some sort of watermark or other identifier to say that it was generated by machines. That technology certainly should be easy to implement. At least given the promises of what AI is supposed to offer. But then that lets the air out of the balloon.
When it comes to scraping nickels off the pavement or bigger bucks from investors, and appearing that you’re something you’re not, we humans are far too accomplished at those skills. It’s no wonder Artificial Intelligence spits it back in our faces from time to time.
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