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Episode 9: Panic is a Terrible Editor
What this episode is about
In May 2025, the Chicago Sun-Times ran a summer reading list with ten books that didn't exist — fabricated by AI, submitted by a freelancer who later said "I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first. This time, I did not."
That sentence is the whole episode. Not a story about someone with no standards. A story about someone with good standards who, under deadline, skipped the one step that mattered.
In this episode
Why the people making AI mistakes usually aren't careless — they're tired, behind, and the output looked fine. The…
The skinny
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