The long closed site that got revitalised as a zombie AI version

TUAW (“The Unofficial Apple Weblog”) was shut down by AOL in 2015, but this past year, a new owner scooped up the domain and began posting articles under the bylines of former writers who haven’t worked there for over a decade.

(From: Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified - The Verge)

The content on the relaunched site was LLM-generated, including author names and pictures. But then they used real author names from people who used to work at the site. Very uncanny.

After one of the former TUAW writers posted about what happened and threatened with legal action, the names have now been changed.

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