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Chicago Sun-Times AI failures

Every documented AI failure involving Chicago Sun-Times on the AI Failure Index, classified by the mechanism that broke.

Failures
1
Highest severity
Medium
Span
2025
Failure modes
1
By failure mode
By severity
FI-0070Cross-industryMedium
Hallucination

A newspaper printed an AI-generated summer reading list of books that don't exist

The Chicago Sun-Times and other papers published a syndicated summer guide whose AI-generated reading list recommended novels that were never written, attributing fake titles to real, well-known authors. The outlets apologized and pulled the supplement.

Confidence
Low (single source)
Chicago Sun-Times1 sourcePressPublicMay 2025

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