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Title: Business Insider Recommended Nonexistent Books To Staff As It Leans
Into AI

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/1537...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Business Insider announced this week
that it wants staff to better incorporate AI into its journalism. But less
than a year ago, the company had to quietly apologize to some staff for
accidentally recommending that they read books that did not appear to exist
but instead may have been generated by AI. In an email to staff last May, a
senior editor at Business Insider sent around a list of what she called
"Beacon Books," a list of memoirs and other acclaimed business nonfiction
books, with the idea of ensuring staff understood some of the fundamental
figures and writing powering good business journalism. Many of the
recommendations were well-known recent business, media, and tech nonfiction
titles such as Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin, DisneyWar by James
Stewart, and Super Pumped by Mike Isaac. But a few were unfamiliar to staff.
Simply Target: A CEO's Lessons in a Turbulent Time and Transforming an Iconic
Brand by former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel was nowhere to be found. Neither
was Jensen Huang: the Founder of Nvidia, which was supposedly published by
the company Charles River Editors in 2019.

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