Early Tech Blog Resurrected and Populated With Zombie AI “Slop”
One of the sites where tech blogging started in the 2000s, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), is back—kind of. Shuttered in 2015, Jay Peters and Sean Hollister report on how TUAW was acquired by Web Orange Limited this year. The hitch: the new owner did not acquire TUAW’s content and used generative AI to rewrite it all—badly—to attract search engine traffic. “Seeing my name on this slop is so fucked,” vents former TUAW blogger Christina Sharp, who discovered recent zombie content had been attributed to her.
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