US newspaper recommends books that don't exist through AI-generated reading list

An AI-generated reading list in the Sun-Times and Inquirer featured fake titles by real authors; both have apologised. – LYNDON FRENCH/The New York Times

The summer reading list tucked into a special section of the Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer seemed innocuous enough.

There were books by beloved authors such as Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee; novels by bestsellers including Delia Owens, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Brit Bennett; and a novel by Percival Everett, a recent Pulitzer Prize winner.