The Chicago Sun-Times, a daily non-profit newspaper owned by Chicago Public Media, appears to have published a summer reading list featuring wholly fabricated books — a sign that the paper may have published unverified AI slop in its pages. An image of a “Summer reading list for 2025” was first shared to Instagram by a book podcaster who goes by “Tina Books” and was circulated on Bluesky by the novelist Rachael King. The newspaper’s title and the date of the page’s publishing are visible in the