Reading list slop

Ars Technica tells us that Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books:

On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published an advertorial summer reading list containing at least 10 fake books attributed to real authors, according to multiple reports on social media.

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The creator of the list, […] confirmed to 404 Media that he used AI to generate the content.

The use of bullshit generators should be considered as malpractice. That the content farm scammers use it, it’s just bad to worse. But that “reputable” newpapers use it, this is definitely hell, given that they also laid-off a lot of writers. This timeline definitely suck and we can’t trust anything written anymore.

Imagine if that was about something harder to verify…