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A right-wing media chain tried to replace 47 newspapers with AI. They all died

https://werd.io/a-right-wing-media-chain-tried-to-replace-47-newspapers-with-ai-they-all-died/
4•benwerd•1h ago

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bediger4000•57m ago
Right 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-a...

For AI-generated, it looks pretty darn good.