The Chicago Sun-Times is being roasted online after it confirmed that a freelancer used AI to generate a summer reading list made up of real authors and fake books. The newspaper called it "a learning moment for all of journalism." Meanwhile, the paper's union said it was "deeply disturbed" by what it called "this slop syndication."
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