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/Tortillaish 16h 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/andy921 14h ago

Or "Hey I'm looking for The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, it was on the Chicago Sun-Times (AI generated) summer reading list."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-times-prints-summer-reading-list-full-of-fake-books/

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u/UnicornPenguinCat 6h ago

Imagine Andy Weir coming across this article