🧟 Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified
By @jaypeters and @StarFire2258
at @verge
TUAW, ‘The Unofficial Apple Weblog,’ has been recreated in an incredibly scummy way.
#Apple #blogger #TUAW

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/10/24195858/tuaw-unofficial-apple-tech-blog-ai-web-orange-khan

The AI Zombification of TUAW

I’ve been reading up on this (The Verge has more details, or at least a complementary take), and in my opinion the people behind this kind of plagiarist content farming (some of wh(...)

#ai #apple #blog #content #history #plagiarism #theft #tuaw

https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2024/07/12/0910

Headline: Hocked TUAW

Subtitle: #TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through #AI summarizers.

Source: https://www.404media.co/email/1f6797e6-3d48-4034-a3a1-36a3d1787a9d/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

#Journalism

Jason Koebler: Hocked #TUAW

"This month, “Christina Warren” started blogging again for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), a legendary and long-dead Apple-centric tech news blog that she worked at more than a decade ago. Warren was for years a well-known and very good tech journalist, before she went on to work for Microsoft and GitHub. The real Christina Warren hasn’t been writing these new posts on the zombie TUAW, however. The site’s new owners have stolen her identity, replaced her photo with an AI-generated one, and have been publishing what appear to be AI-generated articles under her byline."

#journalism #IdentityTheft #generativeai #ai
https://www.404media.co/email/1f6797e6-3d48-4034-a3a1-36a3d1787a9d/

Journalism is "un-dead"?

TUAW makes a sad return as an AI-powered stolen content farm - 9to5Mac

https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/10/tuaw-ai-farm/

#Journalism #TUAW #AI #Tech

I used to be a huge fan of #TUAW dot com. ("The Unofficial Apple Weblog")
AOL bought it, kept it around for a wee bit, gutted it, then forwarded the url to the Apple feed of Engadget (lol)

Then they let the stinking domain expire and be snapped up by undesirables.

That's just the final insult to injury.

For those that are curious, some of the original bloggers from TUAW are now at https://appleworld.today — but I confess to not hardly ever reading it.

There's just not much Apple news that excites me anymore.
(Oh look, Apple found a new way to extract money from people in the most petty way possible. Wow. So hubris. Such soulless.)