Alex Mahadevan
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More than 200 AI-generated ‘local news’ sites just went dark - Poynter (opens the original)
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Prism News has suspended its network of more than 200 AI-generated “local news” sites following investigations from multiple outlets that exposed plagiarism and falsehoods. Over the last few weeks, I spoke with journalists at Interlochen Public Radio, Source New Mexico and Spin Class about Prism News, an Israel-based company that has alarmed public officials, scraped legitimate local news and violated basic journalism ethics. Articles on the sites — which bore the tagline “(t)he stuff mainstream
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