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AI makes content production cheap, shifting advantage to judgment about what to say and ensuring it means something when delivered.
A joint investigation by The Florida Trib and the KCRW podcast Question Everything found that a so-called "independent, locally owned digital news publication" dubbed the South Florida Standard was in reality an AI-generated Potemkin village staffed entirely by fake writers. The writers had AI-generated profile pictures and made-up biographies to match their beats - a practice that's become a hallmark sign of AI-fabricated "journalists" - and churned out an extraordinary amount of content, much of which turned out to be plagiarized from other outlets.
Collien Fernandes accused her former husband Christian Ulmen of impersonating her online for years and sharing sexually explicit deepfake images. She expressed shock at discovering that hundreds of fake pornographic images of her had been circulating on the internet.