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Apple Blog TUAW Returns With Stolen Graphics and AI-Generated Content

desslr said:
Don’t you all copy each other, really? How do you know it is Ai?
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Look at these two articles and tell me they didn't just run ours through a thesaurus to change a few words:

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Apple Rumored to Add 5x Telephoto Camera to iPhone 16 Pro

Apple's upcoming iPhone 16 Pro will feature the tetraprism periscope camera with 5x optical zoom, first introduced with the iPhone 15 Pro Max last year,
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Apple Again Rumored to Bring 5x Telephoto Camera to iPhone 16 Pro

Apple's upcoming iPhone 16 Pro will gain the tetraprism periscope camera with 5x optical zoom that debuted last year on the iPhone 15 Pro Max,...
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Reblogging is one thing and there is a lot of it in the Apple News sphere (usually including links to the source material, which TUAW does not), but they're not putting any effort into actual writing.

How about these two...a thorough piece we put a lot of work into to collate all of the existing rumors. They rearranged and reworded a few things and threw in some more AI-generated images, but it's clearly lifted from our article:

www.tuaw.com

iPhone 17 Slim: Design, Features, and Rumors

In a significant shift for its iconic product line, Apple is expected to discontinue the iPhone "Plus" model in its upcoming iPhone 17 series to introduce
www.tuaw.com www.tuaw.com
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iPhone 17 Air: Everything We Know About Apple's Slim iPhone

In 2025, Apple is expected to discontinue the iPhone "Plus" device in its iPhone 17 lineup to make way for an iPhone "Air" – although...
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The original TUAW was great so I was happy to see a fresh restart when new articles suddenly turned up in my rss-feed. Entered the site and it felt strange to say the least. Google has to take some sort of action going forward (don't do evil).
 
Some won’t like this but it’s a cold hard fact and truth leading into AI even large media companies are doing it.

I do find it lazy when content creators use AI and don’t actually check over the content and make appropriate edits before publishing. AI is not perfect so someone needs to make adjustments. Using AI cartoon looking photos is crap too. At least use stock photos.

But I’m not too worried about content rewritten and changed through AI as long as the story makes sense and is useful for visitors and that it has actually been manually reviewed and edited by someone before publishing.
 
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wellander1 said:
Can Macrumors block bots by doing a robots.txt file to the site? This looks bad.
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Unfortunately robot.txt is more of an optional directive for the crawlers than a mandate so it won't really prevent bad actors. They can also just have humans copy/pasting directly from MR as well.
 
sdf said:
This is not a happy ending, but it is probably the happiest ending we'll get.

This is also a good reminder to not let a domain name that's actually been used for something useful expire. This was a mistake by Engadget. It was worth ~$10/year to stop this from happening.
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So what happened here was Yahoo actively sold the domain. It didn’t expire. They didn’t sell the content (at least some of which belongs to the writers, I checked my contract after all this happened and I own the rights to my work but Weblogs Inc/AOL had a non-exclusive perpetual license to it). I don’t know what these thieves paid for the site (it probably wasn’t much), but at least part of my anger at this whole thing is with Yahoo/Apollo Global for selling it with so little thought.
 
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sdf said:
This is not a happy ending, but it is probably the happiest ending we'll get.
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Makes you wonder when someone will scrape the MacRumors forms. I look forward to seeing some of the old threads from Politics, Religion and Social Issues play out again get posted using overly verbose, generic language.
 
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filmgirl said:
So what happened here was Yahoo actively sold the domain. It didn’t expire.
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Oh dear. Yahoo's stupid burns! Thanks for sharing that little tidbit.

I'd guess $5,000-$15,000 but I might be wrong. Yahoo might have just given it away without realizing the value a four letter .com domain had. Either way, it wasn't enough to solve any of Yahoo's problems.

We once tried to buy "visit (dot) us" back when it was still available, but as Canadians we weren't permitted by our registrar. (We'd have used it for something!)
 
Hardly a news story here. Are you new to the Internet, MacRumors?

Abandoned domain purchased by someone and used for advertising focused on similar content of the old site people are looking for. Happens all the time. I visited the site for a camera store I had not been to in some time and saw something similar. I assume the store has gone out of business, seeing that.
 
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Undecided said:
I'm sickened by the prospect of AI BS overrunning everything. No, thanks. I want real writers, real photographers, real radio DJs, real customer service, and so on.
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Some real writers can’t seem to construct sentences and seem to babble on creating useless content though. That’s the part I don’t like.
 
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