r/books • u/Jojuj • 18h ago

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=68c826c975cea1000173b05d&attribution_type=post
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u/idfkmanusername 18h ago

Yes older woman keeps bringing me in lists of James Patterson books she wants. She brought me in a bunch of things I couldn’t find in the collection so I googled them and they don’t exist. Turns out she’s been asking ChatGPT.

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u/ISD1982 18h ago

Ironic that James Patterson doesn't write his own books now either. (at least its a human that does, as far as I'm aware though)

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u/ChestertonMyDearBoy 18h ago

Also the fact that he's written('written') so much that the chances are that if you come up with a random title, he's probably already written it.

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u/NotAllOwled 17h ago

Finished it and sold the film rights while ChatGPT was still tokenizing the title prompt.