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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Bill McCarthy and Anuj Chopra

Proliferating 'News' Sites Spew AI-generated Fake Stories

Hundreds of AI-powered sites are mimicking news outlets (Credit: AFP)

A sensational story about the Israeli prime minister's "psychiatrist" exploded online, but it was AI-generated, originating on one of hundreds of websites researchers warn are churning out tech-enabled fiction masquerading as news.

Propaganda-spewing websites have typically relied on armies of writers, but generative artificial intelligence tools now offer a significantly cheaper and faster way to fabricate content that is often hard to decipher from authentic information.

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