A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop
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“A popular space news website was caught fabricating a fake NASA engineer to author AI-generated articles. The site deleted large portions of its content after the deception was exposed.”
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