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A right-wing media chain tried to replace 47 newspapers with AI. They all died
- bediger4000 3mo agoRight now, 2026-06-29T7:36-0600, the linked-to-article has a prologue about how the author was taken in by completely false AI-generated text. The linked-to-article relied on text from what looks like to me to be a traditional SEO web site, one of those decent-looking sites with no discernable unifying topic. The AI-generated text that took in the author of the linked-to-article is: https://theeditorial.news/culture/the-ghost-paper-that-ate-alabama-how-a-media-startup-killed-47-weekly-newspapers-and-no-one-noti-mqtr26qt https://theeditorial.news/culture/the-ghost-paper-that-ate-a... For AI-generated, it looks pretty darn good.