Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers and Memory Piece, posted on Bluesky on Tuesday that fake blurbs attributed to her have appeared on the web pages of many books, including a number of Harper Collins titles. (Ko’s latest novel was published by Riverhead). She wrote that the AI-generated booklist run by the Chicago Sun-Times reminded her “that I’ve been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can’t get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?” The thread continued, “I only became […]
