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A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff


TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers.

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