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Zombie Alt-Weeklies Are Stuffed With AI Slop About OnlyFans
Beloved alt-weeklies like the Village Voice have started publishing what appears to be AI-generated clickbait about OnlyFans.
If you pull up the homepage for the Village Voice on your phone, for example, you’ll see reporting from freelancers—longtime columnist Michael Musto still files occasionally—as well as archival work from big-name former writers like Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Greg Tate. Previously, WIRED has reported on a variety of different defunct news and media outlets that have been resurrected by new owners and stuffed with AI-generated clickbait, from a small-town Iowa newspaper to beloved feminist blog The Hairpin. Whatever the reason, it marks a grim new pitstop for declining media publications, one in which blatant SEO bait sits side-by-side with culturally valuable archival journalistic work and, in the case of the Village Voice, ongoing contemporary reportage.
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