Humanoids suck. Robots suck. Humanoids x Robots suck exponentially.Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism:
National Today, a site that mimics news outlets and includes subdomains for dozens of US cities, appears to use AI to plagiarize articles from multiple sources — “This is very upsetting to see.” … On Tuesday evening, we published an original interview with a researcher who had recently coauthored …
Kim Andrew Elliott / @kaedotcom.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/medi... [embedded post]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr We did reach out to Google about National Today, and Google appears to have de-indexed it. Even so: if you're a journalist, it's not unlikely that your work has been stolen. I lost count around 300+ articles while trying to gauge how many articles NT published in just one day.Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr Content farms are nothing new, and AI has made them worse and worse. But what's interesting about this particular fake news mill is that it's run by a PR firm called “TOP Agency,” whose CEO Ben Kaplan is even listed as an author of some very clearly plagiarized articles: [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr Also this alleged quote from Pope Leo is obviously not real: [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr There are remarkably terrible errors littered throughout this website — among them, fabricated quotes about real news events attributed to various John and Jane Does. “John Doe, Artemis II Astronaut” “Governor Jane Doe, Governor of Iowa” and so on [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr Plagiarism is just the start. NT publishes most of its “news” content on pages designed to look like local news sites — “NYC Today,” “Cleveland Today,” etc. All of them have the same slogan: “By the People, For the People.” [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr This is just one article — I can't stress enough how massive the scale of theft is. This site has plagiarized everything from major national outlets to pretty much any local outlet outlet imaginable. [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: This website, National Today, is truly insane. We first noticed it because we're among the many sites it's ripped off — excerpt from an original Futurism story is on the left, the NT version is on the right. Rewrote our piece + stole a quote from @slotkinjr with 0 attribution: [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news mill that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale — all while spewing misinformation and hallucinating fake quotes. It also can't stop referring to real people as “John Doe” and “Jane Doe.” https://futurism.com/... [image]
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