India, May 21 -- The CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times issued a clarification after the newspaper published a reading list over the weekend that was partially generated by artificial intelligence and featured made-up books by famous authors.

The list, which was part of their "Best of Summer" summer reading section, contained only five titles out of a total of fifteen, which were actual books; the rest were dreamed up by AI. The summer book guide featured a made-up book titled Tidewater Dreams by Chilean-American novelist Isabel Allende, calling it the author's "first climate fiction novel." It also listed The Rainmakers, a book supposedly written by 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner Percival Everett.

The list triggered outrage from Chicago Sun-Time...