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An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes

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An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes
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Ever stumble across an online “news article” that just doesn’t feel quite right? You may be onto something.



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 t

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