The Machines Are Making Up Books Now, and Librarians Are Losing Their Minds

Look, I’ve always said AI would come for us all eventually. But I figured it’d start with the stockbrokers or the lawyers—you know, jobs where making stuff up is already part of the game.

Instead, the robots went after librarians.

According to Scientific American, students and researchers keep walking into libraries asking for books, journals, and archival records that don’t exist. Never existed. Were conjured wholesale from the statistical fever dreams of ChatGPT and its silicon siblings.