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Artificial. But intelligent? Catholic summer must-reads — kind of

What's happened to good old-fashioned journalistic malpractice?

The Pillar
May 23, 2025
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As Pope Leo XIV talks about AI at the Vatican, two U.S. newspapers were in hot water this week, after they published an AI-generated “summer reading list” — chock full of books that don’t actually exist.

Don’t believe everything you read. Or even this lame robot-generated picture. It couldn’t be real — look at the feet!

The phony list was composed by gene…

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