AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

It would appear https://theeditorial.news is "Under Construction" now. The articles themselves [1] were originally super creepy when you know the entire thing is made up.

> Michelle Quaid is fifty-two years old, the mother of two grown children, and she began working at the Commercial-News in 1999

> Quaid wore a polo shirt with the paper's logo — a stylized 'C' — over her heart.

She's not real! None of it is! Truly bizarre and unnerving. I'd love if we got a follow-up, eventually.

Why only rural newspapers and South China Sea?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20260629011021/https://theeditor...

Re: AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

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Post by franze » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 1:35 PM UTC

hypothesis: connecting an ai autoblogging script to Google Analytics / Google Search Console:

00 you seed some articles

10 wait for traffic

20 bot fetches GA / GSC

30 bot analysis what works what does not

40 instructed to create more of what works

50 more ai slop that works in search / social

60 Go To 10

aka a "positive" / unchallenged feedback loop

content cost dismissible - cents per article

Re: AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

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Post by emsign » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 1:37 PM UTC

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Re: AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

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Post by zerobees » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC

I remarked a couple of times that the same thing crops up on HN. Many high-ranking blog posts about AI appear AI-generated, and the funny thing is that this holds true not only for pro-AI content, but also for anti-AI posts.

Ultimately, a lot of topic-du-jour punditry is a hustle for clicks.

Re: AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

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Post by yousif_123123 » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 1:41 PM UTC

joenot443 wrote: post #6

This is a great read. It would appear https://theeditorial.news is "Under Construction" now. The articles themselves [1] were originally super creepy when you know the entire thing is made up. > Michelle Quaid is fifty-two years old, the mother of two grown children, and she began working at the Commercial-News in 1999 > Quaid wore a polo shirt with the paper's logo — a stylized 'C' — over her heart. She's not real!…

The article from archive you link.. scores as mostly human on GPTZero (I tested a random paragraph). That's the issue I've always seen with AI detectors, they might be able to detect direct LLM output, but if you give an article to an AI and tell it write something made up using that format and make it appear like a real story, the detectors will think its real.