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.
I had an idea for a website that basically did that with “thisfacedoesnotexist” except it was a way for people to submit Onion style articles and have it feel like a news site (since the Onion doesn’t take submissions).
But, for humor, and obviously not using people’s actual names.
This idea seems like a quick way to be sued for defamation.
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They ai-generated the articles, they ai-generated the author photos, couldn’t they ai-generate some bullshit author name?
I had an idea for a website that basically did that with “thisfacedoesnotexist” except it was a way for people to submit Onion style articles and have it feel like a news site (since the Onion doesn’t take submissions).
But, for humor, and obviously not using people’s actual names.
This idea seems like a quick way to be sued for defamation.
I think they use the same name, for their credibility. Edit: Names also help for search results and listings of other work from same author.
Even if the writer signed off on this, this should be illegal.
Actually make every AI generated poop have to list their sources. Corps wanted strong copyright laws, here it is.