Both the Chicago Sun-Times AND the Philadelphia Inquirer unknowingly published an AI-generated summer reading list featuring completely made-up books. King Features, a Hearst syndicate that licenses content nationally, produced the 56-page insert called “Heat Index: Your Guide to the Best of Summer,” which also included things like summer foods and summer activity recommendations. The journalist who wrote the piece, Marco Buscaglia, used AI to help create the reading list and unfortunately did not double check the work, so did not see the fake book titles attributed to real-live best-selling authors. King Features did not fact check Marco's work (rookie mistake!). The Chicago Sun and the Philly Inquirer did not double check the insert from King (another rookie mistake!). The papers' readers alerted the papers to what was up (heroes!) and the papers issued apologies for the mistake.
More importantly, Theo learns a new word this episode that he will never use again!
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