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Bad Bunny’s hottest local Super Bowl pregame is at the Chicago Public Library – Chicago Sun-Times
Bad Bunny’s hottest local Super Bowl pregame is at the Chicago Public Library
The library? Yes, the library is hosting a series for Chicagoans to learn about Puerto Rican history ahead of Bad Bunny’s historical Super Bowl halftime show performance this weekend.
By Ambar Colón Feb 3, 2026, 3:30am PST
Bad Bunny arrives at the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday.It’s a big week for Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny.
After making Grammy history as the first Spanish-language album of the year winner, the world’s most-streamed male artist is now prepping for his Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.
While many Chicagoans are getting ready to watch the halftime show from the bar or at home, the real local pregame is at the Chicago Public Library, which is hosting a cultural program that explores Puerto Rican history through music.
“Bad Bunny x Super Bowl: Beats and History”
When: 6 p.m. on Feb. 3 and 2 p.m. on Feb. 6
Where: West Belmont and Harold Washington branches
Tickets: Free with registration
Info: chipublib.bibliocommons.comThe event is a part of the library’s ongoing “One Book, One Chicago” initiative.
The “Puerto Rico x Bad Bunny: Beats & History” program covers the superstar singer’s collaborative work with Professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, the Midwest-based author of “Puerto Rico: A National History.” Here an audience listens to the program in October at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago’s Loop.More than 300 people have attended the virtual and in-person events at various Chicago Public Library branches, with folks tuning in from as far as New Jersey and Florida.
In the library program, Colón breaks down Puerto Rico’s long history of resistance to a soundtrack of songs from Bad Bunny’s “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” alongside musical movements that predate the singer.
The program incorporates the work of historian Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of “Puerto Rico: A National History.”
Meléndez-Badillo worked closely with Bad Bunny to create text-based music videos for each of the 17 tracks on “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.” The professor’s notes, written in Spanish only, detail the work and lives of several Puerto Rican individuals and important social justice movements in the archipelago’s history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9T_MGfzq7I
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In Chicago hearing on National Guard deployment, federal judge appointed by Biden will hear arguments – Chicago Sun-Times
Donald Trump Politics Immigration
Federal judge hits Trump administration credibility in siding with city and state against National Guard deployment
Judge’s order bars ‘federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois’ for at least 14 days.
By Jon Seidel and Tina Sfondeles Oct 9, 2025, 6:02pm PDT
Members of the Texas National Guard at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in far southwest suburban Elwood, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025.For U.S. District Judge April Perry,
it all came down to credibility.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul speaks to reporters after court on Oct. 9, 2025.
Tina SfondelesShould she believe local law enforcement officials, who say they have protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration campaign well in hand? Or Trump, whose aides claim a “brazen new form of hostility” targeting federal law enforcement had broken out in Illinois?
In the end, Perry concluded the Trump administration’s “perception of events” around Chicago “are simply unreliable.” She’d seen “no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois,” nor that Trump “is unable … to execute the laws of the United States.”
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And after a historic hearing that lasted more than three hours at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, the judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from “ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois.”
Perry ruled orally from the bench and promised a written opinion Friday. The order is effective for two weeks, and Perry set a hearing for Oct. 22 to determine whether it should be extended for two more. Trump’s lawyers are sure to appeal in the meantime.
Gov. JB Pritzker reacted in a statement by saying, “Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.”
“Today, the court confirmed what we all know: There is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.”
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Chicago Sun-Times: Special section with fake book list plagued with additional errors, Sun-Times review finds. “A review by the Sun-Times newsroom of the 64-page special section found the errors extended far beyond the mostly fake summer reading list, with more misinformation plaguing other articles in the edition. The newsroom fact-checked all 10 stories with named sources and each of the […]
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A deeper and more troubling story than initially thought.
Yes, There’s More on The Chicago Sun-Times AI Flap
#Chicago #AI #ChicagoSunTimes #journalism #mediahttps://warnercrocker.com/2025/05/30/yes-theres-more-on-the-chicago-sun-times-ai-flap/
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It’s AI. It’s “human mistakes.” it’s bean counting.
It’s a mess.
Yes, There’s More on The Chicago Sun-Times AI Flap
#AI #ChicagoSunTimes #Media #journalism #tech #Chicago
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/05/30/yes-theres-more-on-the-chicago-sun-times-ai-flap/ -
Yes, There’s More on The Chicago Sun-Times AI Flap
You probably remember last week’s adventure in AI and The Chicago Sun-Times. A special section featuring summer activities called The Heat Index included a traditional list of fifteen books for summer reading. Ten of the books didn’t exist, even though they are listed as being written by actual authors. Yes, AI was the culprit. But so too were the humans.
Well, it turns out there’s more to the story. Other parts of The Heat Index also included things like quotes from folks who claim they never made them and in the case of one chef was never solicited for an interview. The Sun-Times began checking the Heat Index and discovered 10 stories they checked all had similar erroneous sources, some phony, and multiple errors and information that couldn’t be verified.
The digging also unveiled that similar errors existed in past special supplements put together by King Features, a division of Hearts Corp, the newspaper published. The Sun-Times typically does about 10 such special supplements a year.
Here are some examples from the latest article describing the scenario:
One of the first stories in the summer section, touted as “a look at the hammock boom,” quoted several people who may not exist, or at least are not who Buscaglia said they were.
For example, a Ryan Leidecker was described as a product line manager at Eagles Nest Outfitters. The company said Leidecker is not an employee nor ever has been.
Buscaglia also cited a Dr. Jennifer Campos as professor of leisure studies at the University of Colorado. The university says it has no record of an employee named Jennifer Campos.
The story quoted Campos as saying a “hammock has become this generation’s equivalent of the Frisbee on the quad,” from her “2023 research paper published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.” A search of her name in the journal yielded nothing.
In the same story, Mark Ellison is identified as an employee at Great Smoky Mountains National Park and warns about the damage that “improper hammock hanging techniques” can do to trees, with Buscaglia noting the information appeared on the park’s website.
Ellison posted on Facebook that he was not an employee of the park and said no such thing. The national park confirmed to the Sun-Times that Ellison does not work there and that there is no such information about hammocks on its website.
Also cited in the DIY article was a 2024 Wired magazine story by a tech writer named Brian Kahn, about setting up an outdoor movie area in your backyard. Wired told the Sun-Times that Kahn has not written for the publication and the quote was inaccurate.
The author of the content, Mark Buscaglia, did come clean about using AI and his failure to fact check. The Sun-Times has also come clean and said that no Sun-Times employees proofed the content before publishing it under its own banner.
What’s interesting, though not surprising, is The Sun-Times reasoning for how it got into this mess. Using King Features and not Sun-Times staff to prepare the supplements was, as you would expect, a cost-saving move according to Chicago Public Media’s CEO Melissa Bell, who also called the episode a series of “human mistakes.”
Here’s another quote:
Bell said the decision to buy special sections from King Features — which predated her arrival at CPM last year — was a “creative solution to keep hitting revenue goals while we transition from print to digital revenue.” She said she had no objection: “I didn’t deeply investigate the editions, and quickly approved the team to continue the practice in place. My reasoning: let’s not sacrifice any revenue.”
As a side note to this story, and pointing to the bigger picture human mistakes I think all of these AI companies have made, it seems to me that a lot of these kind of error prone mistakes or hallucinations — too easily overlooked by most humans — could easily be rectified if the AI output included some sort of watermark or other identifier to say that it was generated by machines. That technology certainly should be easy to implement. At least given the promises of what AI is supposed to offer. But then that lets the air out of the balloon.
When it comes to scraping nickels off the pavement or bigger bucks from investors, and appearing that you’re something you’re not, we humans are far too accomplished at those skills. It’s no wonder Artificial Intelligence spits it back in our faces from time to time.
You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
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#ChicagoSunTimes Prints #AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/
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A.I.-Generated #ReadingList in #ChicagoSunTimes Recommends Nonexistent Books
A summer reading insert recommended made-up titles by real authors such as #IsabelAllende and #DeliaOwens. The Sun-Times and The #PhiladelphiaInquirer have apologized.
#ai #hallucinationhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/media/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list.html
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A.I.-Generated #ReadingList in #ChicagoSunTimes Recommends Nonexistent Books
A summer reading insert recommended made-up titles by real authors such as #IsabelAllende and #DeliaOwens. The Sun-Times and The #PhiladelphiaInquirer have apologized.
#ai #hallucinationhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/media/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list.html
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A.I.-Generated #ReadingList in #ChicagoSunTimes Recommends Nonexistent Books
A summer reading insert recommended made-up titles by real authors such as #IsabelAllende and #DeliaOwens. The Sun-Times and The #PhiladelphiaInquirer have apologized.
#ai #hallucinationhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/media/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list.html
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A.I.-Generated #ReadingList in #ChicagoSunTimes Recommends Nonexistent Books
A summer reading insert recommended made-up titles by real authors such as #IsabelAllende and #DeliaOwens. The Sun-Times and The #PhiladelphiaInquirer have apologized.
#ai #hallucinationhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/media/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list.html
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A.I.-Generated #ReadingList in #ChicagoSunTimes Recommends Nonexistent Books
A summer reading insert recommended made-up titles by real authors such as #IsabelAllende and #DeliaOwens. The Sun-Times and The #PhiladelphiaInquirer have apologized.
#ai #hallucinationhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/media/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list.html
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On May 18th, the Chicago Sun-Times published a book list generated by AI and containing 10 fake books. Here's how it happened.
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Today in The Medium Newsletter, Anna Dorn explores postmodernism, nostalgia, and #marketing trends, with @juliovincent on the rebranding of #HBO, Chris Martin on the revival of brand mascots, and Benjamin Sledge on reclaiming analog habits.
Other featured stories include a synopsis of this week’s #GoogleIO summit, a perspective on the #ChicagoSunTimes recommending nonexistent books hallucinated by #AI, and a personal experience of miscarriage.
https://medium.com/blog/why-were-yearning-for-nostalgia-7347bdcac316
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Writers couldn't even take the time to write a fucking list!
The fuck do you get paid for?!
Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-times-prints-summer-reading-list-full-of-fake-books/
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#ChicagoSunTimes hit by #AIHallucinations generating articles for its content
Via @TheGuardian
"Others on social media have pointed out that 👉the use of AI appears to be found throughout the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times summer 2025 section.👈
👉"Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist👈
Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner[s], a ‘learning moment’"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/chicago-sun-times-ai-summer-reading-list -
Snopes: Yes, Chicago Sun-Times published AI-generated ‘summer reading list’ with books that don’t exist. “While the Sun-Times published an AI-generated summer reading list, the newspaper’s staff did not generate the list. A freelance writer for King Features, a company owned by media conglomerate Hearst, produced the content for distribution in various media outlets including the Sun-Times.”
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“The ‘Heat Index’ newspaper insert published by the #ChicagoSunTimes and the #PhiladelphiaInquirer contained AI-generated misinformation and reading lists full of books that don’t exist.” It “was created by a subsidiary of the [publishing] giant #Hearst.”
https://www.404media.co/viral-ai-generated-summer-guide-printed-by-chicago-sun-times-was-made-by-magazine-giant-hearst/ -
We’re Losing The Battle Over What’s Real and What’s Not
The Chicago Sun-Times takes heat for publishing AI slop.
#ChicagoSunTimes #AI #Mediahttps://warnercrocker.com/2025/05/20/were-losing-the-battle-over-whats-real-and-whats-not/
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We’re Losing The Battle Over What’s Real and What’s Not
The Chicago Sun-Times is going to go through some things. Is AI the culprit? Business model? Lack of editorial oversight? The answer doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things when it comes to the struggle to understand what’s real and what’s not.
The paper published a summer activities guide called the Chicago Sun-Times Heat Index that contained a reading list of books that included real authors, but some of the titles were entirely fictional. As in not real titles at all. Just made up. Five of the titles actually exist. Ten do not.
This episode lead most to immediately speculate that the article was generated by Artificial Intelligence and that there was no editorial oversight of what actually made it into print. I don’t know about you, but I’d call those assumptions more than an early warning sign.
According to 404 Media the Heat Index was published by King Features which is owned by Hearst Newspapers. The guide was licensed by the Sun-Times apparently for the Sunday print and online editions.
The Sun-Times issued an early statement saying they are looking into the matter as referenced below, promising more info to be released soon.
To their credit they did. VP of marketing and communications for Chicago Public Media, which owns the Sun-Times stated to 404 Media that no one at Chicago Public Media reviewed the section, which follows a pattern used with similar such inserts saying that “historically, we don’t have editorial review…because it comes from a newspaper.” That statement of course includes the promise of a change in policy going forward and an investigation to see if there is other inaccurate information. You can read the full Chicago Sun-Times statement released later here.
The Sun-Times was not the only paper to license and publish the paper according to NPR.
That NPR report also says that writer Marco Buscaglia claimed responsibility for the guide and did acknowledge that it was partly generated by Artificial Intelligence.
Ah, well. All of those worst case assumptions were not a mass hallucination, I guess.
There were years that I bought both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune every morning and got to work early enough to read them both. Those days are long gone, mostly thanks to the Internet and the changes that wrought on the newspaper publishing industry. We’ve all seen this next chapter coming. I guess it’s here.
Here’s the thing. The cold hard fact that most leapt to the assumption that this is some form of AI generated content proves the battle, and perhaps the war has already been lost, regardless of how this did or didn’t happen. It will happen again.
We’ve been heading into the land of make believe where facts don’t matter for some time now. It’s sad that what once were venerated media sources have been helping to lead the charge, especially in an era when governments feel free to make up things as they go along.
You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
#ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Chicago #ChicagoSunTimes #journalism #news #Tech
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El Chicago Sun-Times ha publicado una lista de lecturas para el verano con libros inventados. #chicagosuntimes #ia #ai #libros #books
Eso ya lo hizo Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener en el siglo XVIII. Ahora toca hacer esos libros.
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#Proofreading is dead.
I feel like I've said this earlier. 🤔
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-times-prints-summer-reading-list-full-of-fake-books/
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@GottaLaff I've given up on any media whose stakeholders aren't the American people.
These are my go to's:
#TalkingPointsMemo
#ChicagoSunTimes
#MotherJones
#TheGuardian
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"Cats can be just as lovable as dogs. They just have different ways of showing it.
People inclined to see cats as pitiless and cruel, I’d suggest, have watched too many cartoons with singing mice. Cats lack the muscle structure to change expressions like a human or a dog, but they speak through body language and vocalization — mainly posture."
By Gene Lyons
Apr 6, 2024, 3:00am PDT
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This story is a mess. This will be a thread.
First, Mendoza assumes that the pension board acted at the behest of Lightfoot, but offers no proof. The reporter provides no proof either, so this is journalistic malpractice.
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Susana Mendoza: Lori Lightfoot turned her back on Chicago cops ailing with COVID, including Mendoza’s brother, pushing to deny them pay, health benefits - #ChicagoSunTimes
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I don't get this frame. A pol may choose not to take Boeing's money for a variety of reasons, but their recent problems don't seem like they would be one of them.
Plus, the donations in question are for $500 and $1,000 amounts. C'mon.
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Boeing 737 MAX jetliner crashes, Justice Department settlement don’t keep Illinois politicians from taking campaign cash from company - #ChicagoSunTimes
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On the same day, the #ChicagoSunTimes' #FranSpielman reports on a poll showing #BrandonJohnson in 5th place in one article and about his "surge" in another. Johnson's campaign has been touting a surge since day one - when they pushed a joke survey showing he led the field with 25% of the vote. The two most recent polls have him at 7%- 8% of the vote, where he's always been. #ChiMayor23 #Journalism
vs.
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The #ChicagoSunTimes should be ashamed of themselves for publishing this.
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New research shows CDC exaggerated the evidence for masks to fight COVID - Chicago Sun-Times
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Here's how #NeilSteinberg of the #ChicagoSunTimes described the mayoral field in 2015, including a racist swipe at #ChuyGarcia: https://www.beachwoodreporter.com/top/the_tuesday_papers_450/
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#ChicagoSunTimes publishes press release from right-wing propaganda outfit disguised as a letter to the editor.
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Poll shows our city’s new reality: Chicagoans feel unsafe - Chicago Sun-Times
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/2/13/23594709/sun-times-poll-public-safety-crime-chicago-letters
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After all these years, journos are still accepting at face value the economic benefits studies that businesses do on their own behalf.
In this case, NASCAR visits the #ChicagoSunTimes's editorial board, spouts nonsense, and gets a credulous news article out of it.
I. JUST. DON'T. GET. IT.
Doesn't anyone want to commit #journalism around here?
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NASCAR says summer street race in Grant Park could pump $113 million into economy - Chicago Sun-Times
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2023/2/7/23589636/nascar-chicago-street-race-grant-park
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What an absolutely mediocre introductory column by new #ChicagoSunTimes contributor Marc Morial. Maybe, as a former mayor of New Orleans, give us your take on Paul Vallas's tenure as schools chief there! Just nonsense cliches.
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My ties to Chicago run deep. The next mayor needs a ‘gumbo coalition’ and a Marshall Plan for the city. - Chicago Sun-Times
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LOL, on what planet?
"Standards-based news organizations train their reporters to use multiple sources to develop news reports and hold themselves accountable when they make a mistake."
This appears in the #ChicagoSunTimes, king of the one-source stories. Can't remember a single case of accountability in 20 years of pointing out their errors!
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Avoid misinformation, become knowledgeable before voting in aldermanic contests - Chicago Sun-Times