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The Dead Husk of Gawker Is Being Used to Promote Joe Rogan’s Interview With Donald Trump

The Dead Husk of Gawker Is Being Used to Promote Joe Rogan’s Interview With Donald Trump

By Victor Tangermann

John Scalzi Discovers That One of His Book Covers Was Created Using AI

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John Scalzi Discovers That One of His Book Covers Was Created Using AI

By Jon Christian

Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books

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Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books

By Frank Landymore

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It seems scammers who use AI to mimic writers are getting smarter after a journalist found a book that bore a strong resemblance to his own.

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Scammers Are Using AI to Sell Ripped Off Versions of Other People’s Books

By Noor Al-Sibai

The New York Times is said to be weighing a lawsuit against OpenAI over intellectual property infringement behind closed doors.

The New York Times Is Apparently Considering a Lawsuit Against OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Author Jane Friedman got some seemingly AI-written books listed under her name taken down after posting about it on Twitter and her own blog.

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Author Annoyed to Find Amazon Selling AI-Generated Books Under Her Name

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bankrate started publishing AI-generated content again -- but quickly deleted it after we pointed out it was loaded with errors.

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Bankrate Posts AI-Generated Article, Deletes It When We Point Out It’s Full of Errors

By Jon Christian

A man has written almost 100 books using AI and claims he has "sold 574 books for a total of nearly $2,000 between August and May."

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Man Uses AI to Write 97 Terrible Books, Sells $2,000 Worth

By Sharon Adarlo

Buzzfeed, Inc. CEO Jonah Peretti just laid out his new AI vision — and it sounds like a plagiarized, choose-your-own-adventure content farm.

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BuzzFeed Says AI Will “Replace the Majority of Static Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hackers have taken over a subdomain of wired.com, and used it to promote an Indonesian online casino. Wired does not appear to be able to kick them out.

Hackers Took Over a Subdomain of Wired.com for Several Months and Replaced It With Sleazy Online Casino Content

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

Scammers are cooking up fake Harvard students to shill brands on the university’s website -- and the practice appears to be widespread.

Scammers Are Creating Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Using Them to Shill Brands

By Jon Christian

Alexandra Elbakyan is the founder of Sci-Hub, where you can download any scientific article you want. Journals are furious, but she doesn’t care.

The Founder of Sci-Hub Is Absolutely Unrepentant

By Jennifer Walter

An outrageously strange paper claims, among other things, that there's a black hole at the center of the Earth. Sometthing's fishy.

Science & Energy

Strange Research Paper Claims There’s a Black Hole at the Center of the Earth

By Jon Christian