Libraries Become AI Fact‑Checkers

Librarians now spend time verifying whether AI‑recommended titles even exist, after major papers ran unvetted, AI‑generated reading lists that included fictional books. Vendors are also pushing flawed LLM search/summaries into library platforms, compounding misinformation and wasting staff time. — It reframes libraries as frontline verifiers in an AI era, raising accountability questions for newsrooms, platforms, and AI tools that inject errors into public knowledge systems.