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Lawyer hosting network of 'parasitic' AI content sites unmasked by journalist

The ABC has identified James Raptis, a lawyer at Australian Community Media, as being linked to a series of websites that were stealing – and mangling – stories from other sites.

The ABC's investigation started when Patrick Woods, a sports journalist at the Townsville Bulletin, noticed that strange versions of his stories were showing up on a site called League Initiative. The prompt revealed that the site's operator made some efforts to avoid mangling the text by instructing it to "not remove, edit or modify any quotes in any way". Initiative Media's sports sites did not attach by-lines to their stories at all, while articles on AliaVera were attributed to stereotypically Russian and Chinese names like "Alexander Petrov" and "Adam Li".

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