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An AI junk site used AI to rip off an AI ethics guide.

A Poynter article about using AI in newsrooms was ripped off and rewritten by a pink slime site called Tech Gate. Guess they didn’t read the guide.

I took a browse around the site and saw some familiar faces — Tech Gate also republished a mangled version of a Vergecast segment, including using our image. My favorite line:

Simply after that, we launch Nilay Patel into his Mexican vacation, and we do a newsy lightning spherical.

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