Obviously the funny part is that these are straight-up hallucinated books that do not exist IRL, but here’s what I keep coming back to: if you’re a publisher, and you’re publishing AI-generated junk… why should people read the AI-generated junk you publish instead of generating their own junk?
Reposted from Rachael King
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. 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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