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 How a Small Iowa Newspaper's Website Became an AI-Generated Clickbait Factory

https://media.wired.com/photos/65d9153fa068349256683566/master/pass/business_ai_clickbait_slime_networks.jpg

When two former Meta employees dug into why the website of Iowa's Clayton County Register was spewing dubious posts about stocks, they uncovered a network of sites slinging seemingly AI-made content.

https://www.wired.com/story/iowa-newspaper-website-ai-generated-clickbait-factory/