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When AI ‘hallucinates’ into a global embarrassment

An article cut-and-pasted from ChatGPT raises questions over the role of fact-checkers in the legacy media

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Dr. Mathew Maavak
May 25, 2025
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(Also published by RT.com)

In a farcical yet telling blunder, multiple major newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, recently published a summer-reading list riddled with nonexistent books that were “hallucinated” by ChatGPT, with many of them falsely attributed to real authors.

The syndicated article, distributed by Hearst’…

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