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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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[–] eksb 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Several people should be fired for this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The Sun-Times staff has already been downsized, seems plausible that the layoffs could have contributed to publishing the article by mistake. https://www.wbez.org/business/2025/03/18/chicago-sun-times-lose-20-staff-buyout-offer

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's soooo bad. Could it be a cry for help?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

No, the guy who did it non-apologized, by going he should have checked the output better. Still an AI user.