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Never Give a Bookworm an Even Break

Here’s how authors can turn the fake Chicago Sun-Times List into a “win-win-win”!

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May 20, 2025
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I am chortling over the Chicago Sun Times scandal today: they laid off a quarter of their staff, and THEN assigned ChatGPT to write their annual “Summer Book Reads” advertorial. It’s full page newspaper story of books you might love to consume in a hammock or beach chair.

Only one problem: Large language models like ChatGPT have a recurrent error: they make shit up.

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