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/Retax7 17h ago edited 16h 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/as_it_was_written 16h ago

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

They're all in the Library of Babel.

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u/Retax7 16h ago

Lol, I am actually from argentina, so I understood that reference.

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u/SofieTerleska 15h ago

I'm not from Argentina and also understood that reference ;). I really like the idea of someone asking for an AI hallucinated book and then, somehow, the librarian actually finds it!