College paper fights to stop AI slop website from stealing its identity
- Jan 14
- 1 min read
Greta Kerkhoff, editor in chief of the student newspaper at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was expecting to spend her final year of college working at the paper and completing her journalism degree.
Then the newspaper’s old website was taken over by what appeared to be spam content generated by artificial intelligence.
The ersatz website, which appeared over the summer after the real CU Independent migrated to a new web address, bore the Independent’s name and logo.
The only difference in their URLs is a dot-com ending instead of a dot-org. The Independent’s copycat was releasing a stream of poorly written stories on topics such as celebrities, home improvement and fashion that Kerkhoff suspected were generated by AI.
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