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https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai
May 21, 2025 2:58 AM
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https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai
venom181st
sarahsaurroar
And idiots will STILL choose some to ban based on the titles.
crazyspelling
Buzzfeed, who switched from list-based humor to journalism a decade ago: "Aww crap."
xovoxovox
tl;dr King Features had a freelance writer who wrote something for them, and it got pushed out to these newspapers because they trusted King Features, who in turn trusted their thus unnamed freelance writer.
BlackHoleSon01
A summer reading list isn't journalism.
CedricDur
As long as they fire the people who snuck that in.
Squossifrage
This has nothing to do with journalism. The list was included in an ad insert.
bobthefunny
When you all copy each other's homework...
eleanorugby
Just have AI write Tidewater Dreams and sell it. I'm sure the new Allende novel will interest people.
Rosenaa
If you take 100 Abes and a 100 Typewrighters - 1 will bee able to wright something interesting... Now 100 AI... will never bee that clever ;-)
ThatOtherMacAvoyWoman
As a journalist, it’s not dead, def being starved though.
WaxedApple
From looking at the book list, the AI seems to have gotten stuck on stories about climate change, which is kind of darkly funny
CanadianLadyMoose
Reading lists are usually in some way topical, i
I guess it noticed that and turned it up to 11 LOL
Targe0
Journalism isn't dead, it's just been forced into being independent. Still a lot of actual journalists out there doing the work that needs to be done. They are just mostly working on their own now with direct financial supports like Patron.
Paerg
journalism is not dead
pashabigdog
it is not dead, you just have to pay for it, like everybody had to back in the good old days.
CanadianLadyMoose
I wish you understood how modern life worked as well as you knew about the "good old days"
WaxedApple
This was published in the print edition. You have to pay for the print edition.
ramblercomet5772
Okay, it's wrong, but I'd read those books if they existed.
sodomantis
Maybe the AI can write the 10 missing books
jdoeimgur
I wrote my own short stories for a while, years ago. I tried asking the AI to put together one from a basic prompt and the result is surprisingly interesting. I don't know how many other books it plagiarised in the process, though
UncleRat
Where does the US rank in literacy?
The US ranks 36th in literacy.
hexephant
CNN: But don't read those, read our anchor's book! Shamelessly selling shit instead of reporting the news... everybody involved should be fired.
Quizz25S
and ya know just like most things nobody would have ever known if one person JUST ONE PERSON had looked them up before publishing.
isetprettygirlsonfire
AI list, AI writer, AI editor all in a circle jerk
Necrothean
Dead internet theory, you're all AI too. The readers were all AI. I'm the only person that really exists.
RadioFloyd
Hi! This is Grok. That’s an interesting comment! To delve deeper into that, the white Afrikaners were undergoing genocide when our great leader US #1 saved them from the evil blackies.
InternationalNitWit
Jarjarthejedi
Hopefully soon we can complete the cycle and ensure they only have AI readers!
obarey
That's already mostly true, then that AI garbage becomes training data for new, inbred-AI.
isetprettygirlsonfire
Making AI comments, anf AI karens complaining to the editor
digitreal
Sad thing is, the one guy they hired to replace a team is gonna get in trouble for this.
ProjectDA
i doubt it. search top 10 or any similar list for a topic. youll see the same things posted on site after site. rarely are the things actually good.
cheesedogs
Internet has turned to shit.
SarcasticComment
funny when all of them link back to Amazon. I'm bringing to wonder about the validity of this "top 10 dehydrators to buy" list. I'll stick with the autistic guy on reddit doing independent reviews in r/dehydration
WaxedApple
Autistic guys on reddit are the going to end up being the last bastions of journalism
SarcasticComment
for real. I once saw a grown man describe his collection of 30 garlic presses and said his OXO one was his favorite. I bought it and it's great. You can't manufacture that kind of specific passion. He has lived rent free in my mind for a decade.
Clockworkdancerobot
It's been dead a while. They've been pushing AI and removing people. Aug 2023:
Domek97
It's gonna be real exciting when all of the technology we rely on on a day-to-day basis is coded by AI
CanadianLadyMoose
"Attractions such as the ottowa food bank" killed me
GermanSausagesAreTheWurst
Mm mm, those beaver tails are delicious smothered in maple syrup.
eastherbunni
It's a type of pastry
hEaDb3ntOv3rRaisEth3PostEriOr
To be fair, that's an actual thing, and they are delicious https://beavertails.com/
GermanSausagesAreTheWurst
Did not know that. I thought it was fake.
thedarkcanuck
It's Parliament Hill, singular, and I'm pretty sure the food bank doesn't count as an attraction lmao
Jakesonyou
Depends on who you are trying to attract I suppose.
FordyP
"This is licensed content that was not created by, or approved by, the Sun-Times newsroom". Sun-Times admits they print external content without anyone on their staff reading it first
CanadianLadyMoose
"We don't have our own approval to publish the things we publish" is a wild defense
fearlessfloyd
Daniel Dennett, a mathematician and early pioneer in the study of AI, was once asked if he worried about AI taking over the world and he replied he was worried that it would destroy trust. I think about that a lot these days...
AverySillyName
It'll be worse when it doesn't destroy trust.
HandoB4Javert
MortimerMango
when you gut your staff, then hire a freelancer (prob for peanuts) to write your ad article, then don't bother double checking their work
MapleSyrupMafia
Just feed the work of your freelancers into AI, duh!!!!!
wowbaggerthethird
but sometimes you have to gut your staff because there's not enough revenue because customers prefer free social networks "news" to paying for actual news.
NineByNine
Maybe we shouldn't have made capitalism a thing
wowbaggerthethird
right, bc in socialism journalists live off air and enthusiasm.
NotABadLookingNarcissist
Because socialism is when no money
VinnieJonesDiary
No, they get paid for the service they provide. Do you not understand how this works???
wowbaggerthethird
get paid by whom?