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Oops, AI!

In 2025, some newspapers printed a summer reading list. A writer used AI to help make it.

There was one big problem. Most of the books were not real!

Only 5 of the 15 books on the list were real books. The AI made up the rest. It even made up what they were about.

The list looked sure of itself. It was still wrong.

That is called a : when an AI makes a wrong guess.

Think about it

How could the writer have caught the made-up books?

Helpful tools still get things wrong. In this lesson you will learn why. You will also learn what to do about it.

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  1. AI-made summer reading list with books that don't exist (NPR, May 20, 2025)