Where’s that meme of Bugs saying I wish everyone involved a very go to hell or something…
the article, for the curious
Chicago newspaper prints a summer reading list. The problem? The books don’t exist | CBC News
In a statement to CBC News, Chicago Sun-Times spokesperson Victor Lim further explained that the insert was “licensed editorial content from King Features, a unit of Hearst, that was not created by, or approved by, the Sun-Times newsroom.”
King Features is an American content producer. Lim explained that the newspaper has historically relied on content partners for broader coverage beyond their primarily local scope, but “given recent developments, it’s clear we must actively evaluate new processes and partnerships.”
In a statement to CBC News, The Sun-Times Guild — the union that represents editorial employees at the newspaper — confirmed that the summer guide was a syndicated section produced externally “without the knowledge of the members of our newsroom.”
“We’re deeply disturbed that AI-generated content was printed alongside our work. The fact that it was sixty-plus pages of this ‘content’ is very concerning — primarily for our relationship with our audience but also for our union’s jurisdiction,” the guild wrote.
It’s even worse than that; they didn’t know what they were printing.
One thing that generative ai is doing very successfully is shining a spotlight on just how many people and institutions have been half-arsing their quality control for a long time now
Where’s that meme of Bugs saying I wish everyone involved a very go to hell or something…
