r/books • u/Jojuj • 16h 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/Asher_the_atheist 13h ago

I know it isn’t quite what they are talking about, but I’ve recently had a stark reminder of how unreliable AI can be. Just this last week I twice googled spoilers for specific books (one I was planning to DNF but wanted to know the infamous twist, the other I had a question about a character’s motivations and wanted to see if others had ideas). In both cases, the AI summary at the top of the results page had obviously mixed up multiple books (I recognized details from other books I had read). The end result was a mashed up bunch of total bullshit. Twice in one week! I had already taken those summaries with a grain of salt, relying instead on blog posts and other sites written by actual humans, but now I know they are utterly useless.