Library patrons are requesting non-existent books and media hallucinated by AI systems, leading librarians around the country on a wild good chase. The unlikely source for the non-existent books are reading lists published by major newspapers that mixed in AI-generated titles with the real thing.

404 Media reports that Librarians find themselves with a new challenge beyond late returns and damaged books: dealing with patron requests for books and media that don’t exist after AI hallucinates titles that aren’t real — often attributing them to actual authors. Reference librarian Eddie Kristan has experienced this firsthand, with patrons asking…

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