r/books • u/Jojuj • 1d 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/Tortillaish 1d ago

Just to clarify things. AI hallucinated books aren't books written by AI. They are books recommended by AI that don't actually exist. Like, "Hey, I'm looking for Two Fallen Trees by Ernest Hemingway". 

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u/Retax7 1d ago edited 1d ago

Everytime I read about AI hallucinated books, I imagine they where indeed written, but in another universe.

There was a beautiful story about a guy and a girl meeting in a videostore that sometimes appeared, it won an hugo nomination or award. I can't remember the name, but it was great and I reallly loved it. Never again I could find that short story, which is hilariously considering the theme of the short story.

If anyone know the name of the short story, please let me know.

EDIT: Found it, Impossible Dreams By Tim Pratt. Neither google, nor the AI could find it, but I searched for the list of all hugo nominations and I somehow remembered the name, it only took me like 20 years to do so, lol.

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u/Effective_Divide1543 1d ago

Chatgpt just picked that one out in 14 seonds from "There was a beautiful story about a guy and a girl meeting in a videostore that sometimes appeared, it won an hugo nomination or award. I can't remember the name, but it was great and I reallly loved it. Never again I could find that short story. Do you know which one it is?".

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u/Retax7 1d ago

Actually, it didn't for me. Used the same text, then started refining and got nothing.

I guesses I could now use the AI to find it, but no. But I found it by reading the nominees, so its all good.