The Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer list must-read books for summer 2025. They include “the first climate fiction novel,” “Tidewater Dreams,” by Chilean-American novelist Isabel Allende; “The Rainmakers,” set in “a near-future American West where artificial rain is a luxury item,” by 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner Percival Everett.
However, these titles are not real. According to NPR , only 5 out of 15 titles are non-fiction.
Victor Lim, marketing director of the Chicago Sun-Times, said the list was part of content provided by King Features, a division of publisher Hearst Newspapers. The author, Marco Buscaglia, took responsibility, acknowledging that some of the content was AI-generated.
In an email to NPR , Buscaglia said he made a big mistake and had nothing to do with the Sun-Times. “They trusted the content they bought to be accurate, and I broke that trust. It’s 100% my fault.”
When a user posted a photo of the reading list on social media, authors and readers were baffled. “I’m so angry. What’s the point of a subscription if they use AI content,” one person wrote.
“This is the future of book recommendations as libraries lose funding and go out of business,” laments author, former librarian, and Book Riot editor Kelly Jensen. “Trained professionals will be turned away in exchange for this fabricated garbage.”
Mr. Lim said he was investigating the incident and affirmed that he would not accept any fabricated content being provided to readers.
The fake listing was posted on May 18, just two months after the Chicago Sun-Times announced that 20% of its staff had accepted layoffs due to financial difficulties at its owner, Chicago Public Media.
(According to NPR)
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