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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 20:01:45 +0100
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On 21/05/2025 16:30, Tony Nance wrote:
> 
> A national media conglomerate[1] put out a summer reading list, aided by 
> AI. But...
> 
> "In fact, only the last five of the 15 novels on the list are real."
> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list/
> 
> Fake Andy Weir, but real Rad Bradbury.
> Tony
> [1] "A freelance writer for King Features, a company owned by media 
> conglomerate Hearst, produced the content for distribution in various 
> media outlets including the Sun-Times."

A freelance writer who presumably is having
trouble getting work now.  But who evidently
had trouble actually doing his work last week.

Not quite addressed is that an author may
produce a book befor choosing a title, or
the title may be different in different
territories, more so in different languages,
and even may be changed in a re-issue.
So if a title doesn't exist in an author's
oeuvre in the U.S., that doesn't mean that
!it exists nowhere.

However, as noted, one of the stories mentioned
was written by a different author.  Well, that
happens in reality, one way and another.