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Summer approaches, and with it, the inevitable recommendations of the best books, series and films with which to invest our time. Lists that we understand that they are elaborated by experts in this type of suggestions, although it is not always so. In fact, they are sometimes elaborated by artificial intelligences. And sometimes, the results are as disastrous as delusions. It has been AI. This is what the ‘Chicago Sun-Times’ readers have found (and many other newspapers in the United States with that union content) in the supplement ‘The best of summer’, published last weekend. In it, an article with fifteen book recommendations for heat months: ten of them are false, although curiously, their authors are authentic. The person in charge, Marco Buscaglia, recognizes 404 average that has used AI To elaborate it: “Sometimes I use AI as support, but I always check the material first. This time I did not do it and I cannot believe that it would happen to me because it is very obvious. There are no excuses. The fault is mine one hundred percent and I am completely embarrassed.” A couple of examples. Among the most striking books recommended by the list is ‘Tidewater Dreams’ by Isabel Allende, who significantly has just published a book, ‘My name is Emilia del Valle’. The article also recommends the new Andy Weir, author of ‘The Martian’ who titled ‘The Last Algorithm’. It is interesting because the description made of the previous work of the authors is correct, and the synopsis that invents could be true. But they are not. The list of authors continues with people like percival Everett, Ray Bradbury or Jess Walter. Confusion to many levels. According to They have investigated in 404 averageGoogle’s AI gives as authentic that same false book of Isabel Allende (although at this time, the search for ‘tidewater Dreams’ throws, above all, results that report on the Chicago fiasco of Chicago Sun-Times). It’s about a significant fact: it has not transcended what the article elaborated with the article, but as It is increasingly patentthe search for documentation and reliable data between these systems that are feedback begins to be a real mines field. Multiple hallucinations. This is one of the first times in which these problems with the veracity of the results of the AI ​​transcend into the physical world. But Internet users have been suffering from it for a long time: a Reddit comment 11 years ago has traveled to the present, and Google’s AI recommended in a recipe Use pizza cheese glue. Before that, in 2023, Google’s primitive AI I dropped Alphabet for your incorrect answers. The stories are multiple, especially in Google searches (we do not enter the “hallucinations” of chatgpt): Present as real a story of the Day of the Innocents to Invent meaning for invented phrases. Read a lot, read anything. Under what is still a concatenation of capital errors and lack of professionalism not only at the level of the editor, but also to that of the Many intermediate stages that must approve that list, throbb another circumstance. Reading has soaked from cultural exhibitionism that we continue with movies, series or video games. It is no longer about reading what we want, but to mark the greatest amount of boxes on the list of “what you have to read” what We are commissioned by the Booktokers on duty. Reading is cool, even if the book is a lie. The phenomenon of Fomented Reading Clubs by Dua LipaSarah Jessica Parker or Reese Whitherspoon are the best proof that books are no longer a library mice. Reading is cool and sexy againbut it is not enough to experience it: you have to prove it. Like the Marvel movies or the fashion series this week, Read has become the topic of conversation of the momentand that generates monsters like this invented list: there are plenty of books because the SATURY INDUSTRY. But in case with that we fell short, we invented more books. Header | Marcel Strauß in Unspash