The AI book blunder that embarrassed two major newspapers

AI gets creative with fake book reviews. Plus: Google's AI Mode hits the big time, Altman and Ive team up on AI gadgets, WaPo's bot upgrade, and more.

Don’t blame the AI.

It’s a good rule for anyone who uses it, especially journalists. When and AI makes up facts out of the air (as it does), the responsibility falls to the person using the tool, not some faceless machine. That’s one of the main lessons to come out of the viral story bout that AI-generated summer reading list that somehow got published i…