ArsTechnica: Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

"The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a 'summer reads' feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?"

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@ai6yr "Reddit user xxxlovelit" is missing the point....
@ai6yr As a message from my employer’s IT consultant put it this morning promoting Copilot, “AI’s becoming a workplace essential…”.
@ai6yr Now is the time to fire up AI to shit out these so-called books and make BANK
@FeloniousPunk Unfortunately, that is a problem. There's a lot of AI crap in the system now you can order and it gets insta-printed.
@ai6yr Don't worry about it. Just ask your bot for summaries of the "books" in question, and read them!