AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs

AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs

Last year, Icelandic teacher María Hjálmtýsdóttir wrote a column for The Guardian on the country’s experiment with a 36-hour workweek. The piece offered rich personal anecdotes that only a local could provide. Readers learned, for instance, that Hjálmtýsdóttir’s husband is using some of his newfound free time to chat with his fellow hobbyist pigeon keepers. In the months since her Guardian piece came out, Hjálmtýsdóttir’s essay has been stripped…