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

[redheeler]

Authors at TUAW

Meet the expert team behind TUAW.com! Explore profiles of our dedicated editors who bring you the latest in Apple news, reviews, and tech tips.

www.tuaw.com

And to think MacRumors only has 12 editors...time to step up your game.

 

[redheeler]

They didn't steal all the content .... there are no ads.

Pretty easy to not have ads when fake / AI generated people don't demand payment for their work.

 

[paulvee]

That’s a bummer but when you think about how lots of websites operate they use press releases and rewrite them.
Not cool either way 🥹

Sorry, but that's an outrageous false equivalence and has no bearing on the story.

 

[Jumpthesnark]

Authors at TUAW

Meet the expert team behind TUAW.com! Explore profiles of our dedicated editors who bring you the latest in Apple news, reviews, and tech tips.

www.tuaw.com

And to think MacRumors only has 12 editors...time to step up your game.

Awful. All those AI-generated faces, and the "with a keen eye for detail..." profiles copypasted over and over.

 

[Newton1701]

They’ll have the website up for at least a few weeks so it can start ranking really well in search results before they add the ads, guaranteed. They just want their traffic up first. It’s all a money game.

 

[MacAndMic]

Through all genres, “content creators” are just regurgitating an original press release or something someone has already covered but in a different spin. And then there are reviewers….who most don’t dare say anything critical because they’ll lose their chance to review the next thing.

I’m not condoning scraping and I feel bad for MR but it is the future. I won’t sugarcoat it, it was nice seeing TUAW’s site today to just get the articles with some quick facts and not have to scroll through advertisements or read through fluff because you need to hold the viewers attention to get paid.

Once again, not condoning it, it’s just what is going to be done with current and future tech.

 

[coolfactor]

Considering I haven't been a fan of MacRumors for years, I wouldn't mind TUAW's website if it means less ads and pointless forum/comment moderation.

This is the beginning of the end for profitable news sites. I feel your pain regarding the heavy-handed moderation, but when you look at non-moderated forums like YouTube comments, I'll choose this any day. Let's enjoy it while it lasts. Engadget ended their comment threads, and it likely caused a major drop in traffic.

 

[coolfactor]

Curious how Google et al are expected to identify AI-generated textual content? Text doesn't have metadata like images. Do entire sites get blacklisted?

 

[Velli]

Makes you wonder what the internet will be like years from now

Try months!

We’ll all have to re-learn how real life works, because everything online will become useless.

 

[rp100]

Welcome to the future, where AI rewrites and regurgitates the same information over and over, AI trained by AI-generated content. The over-reliance on AI results in a society of people who lack basic critical thinking skills or the ability to generate unique thoughts. The highest power bearers shape the minds of 90% of the population. 8% live on the fringe - some supporting free thought, some throwing their support behind absolute control, both largely staying on the sidelines. That leaves the 1% who control everything and the 1% who actively rebel, injecting adversarial information into the machine, trying to liberate the minds of those who are willing to accept the truth.

tuaw 2.0 getting caught? Meaningless. That was an ambitious experiment that provided valuable intelligence on how to covertly replicate content for future endeavors. The next time it occurs, no one will even know it happened.

The truth is out there. Find it now, before you’re unable to see it.

 

[GrayFlannel]

Readers of MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and other tech sites will want to avoid TUAW going forward.

A sentence that should not have been included.

 

[bLackjackj]

A sentence that should not have been included.

100%,..its only lifted their page hits today.

 

[miamialley]

I always thought it was a terrible name for a web site. TUAW.

 

[macduke]

You either die young, or live long enough to see yourself become the news.

Or get resurrected into an AI zombie. Actually, this will probably be the fate of all of us.

 

[peneaux]

Most websites these days look like that.

Try searching for an answer to a question. An “article” 4-pages long just to keep you there in the hopes to get ad money. If you’re lucky, the answer might be there.

 

[ChrisA]

I thought EVERY web blog site just copy and pasted from each other. Now with this newer software the copy/paste people seem to be out of a job.

 

[thedigstudios]

Mommy, mommy...they're singing my song and they sound better than me! Make it stop! LOL

 

[leonremi]

Internet is basically dead.
Google has fallen into complete irrelevance, fueled by SEO optimization and a death spiral of AI « content », regurgitating an endless stream of stolen, meaningless slop.
Social networks are no better.
Only some ruthlessly enforced enclaves remain…some subreddits, some discord servers. Real humans are basically going underground leaving the open wasteland to the bots and the idiots.

 

[svish]

Disappointing to see copied AI generated content.

 

[laptech]

What do you expect from a country that is well known for stealing things and they copying them.

 

[MS2]

After years of creating "engagement" using cheap panic and overblown predictions AI will put an end to this. Imagine titles soon describing the actual content ... it's going to be the most useful internet ever. Bad news for people who are selling sponsored propaganda content. So sad.
But in the end what are news platforms doing except rewriting what someone else said?

 

[Fuzzball84]

Isn’t this just an extension of what AI tech has been doing all along… it was probably trained on data.. other people’s work to begin with. This stealing and regurgitating of data is just another aspect of this type of AI and its misuses and unregulation.

 

[Fuzzball84]

Almost completely useless.

The internet will become an infinite cycle of AI ingestion and regurgitation. A forever cycle, in which data is sucked up and spat out multiple times… so much so that what you end up looking at will bear no resemblance to the original in any way.

 

[votdfak]

This is the beginning of the end for profitable news sites. I feel your pain regarding the heavy-handed moderation, but when you look at non-moderated forums like YouTube comments, I'll choose this any day. Let's enjoy it while it lasts. Engadget ended their comment threads, and it likely caused a major drop in traffic.

Youtube comments are not moderated? I was banned for 24hrs many times on Youtube. LOL

 

[TriBruin]

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.

A site that is impersonating a former well respected Apple News site and is stealing content from this very site and you don't think MacRumors should warn people?