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Eli Bishop
@errorbar.bsky.social

I know these weren't the only people doing the thing, but I do hope this is a sign that it's not really a viable business model & that others will continue to go away. I get a little spike of rage every time I'm searching for something and land on one of these bullshit sites.

Emily Horne@emilyhorne.bsky.social

A week ago I wrote about Prism News, the tiny VC-backed Israeli start-up behind 200+ AI pink slime “local news” websites. My piece was based in large part on reporting from IPR and other local outlets. Today Prism’s websites are down, seemingly forever. 1/3

Eli Bishop
@errorbar.bsky.social

The most recent one I noticed was "san-francisco-news.com", which is *mostly* down now but still has some unformatted skeletal pages. Here's what part of their "authors" page looks like now; the images are gone so you have to just imagine the most glossy-cartoonish gen-AI portraits you've ever seen.

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