NiemanLab: “A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google….AI-generated news sites have proliferated in the last two years. One study published by NewsGuard in May tallied nearly 1,300 AI-generated news sites across 16 languages. Some sites churn out AI-generated local news; Oregon Public Broadcasting identified one that published stories under identities stolen from real reporters. AI also represents a threat to any site that relies on freelancers; Business Insider and Wired recently retracted stories by a fictitious journalist seemingly written using AI…”