In May 2025, the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer both published a 'Heat Index' summer insert recommending 15 books. Only 5 were real. 'Tidewater Dreams' by Isabel Allende, 'The Last Algorithm' by Andy Weir, 'Nightshade Market' by Min Jin Lee — all fabricated by ChatGPT. Author Marco Buscaglia admitted to King Features Syndicate that he 'didn't fact-check a single thing'. He was fired. The syndicate cut ties. The papers issued apologies. The hallucinated books now have active Goodreads pages created by confused readers.