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Packaged and Repackaged

With fewer journalists, where is our information coming from?

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Parker Molloy
Jun 27∙ Paid

On Tuesday, 404 Media published a brilliant piece about how it would cost someone just $365 to build an AI-powered “news” site that directly rips off 404’s original reporting optimized for Google and Adsense. Through a combination of WordPress plugins, ChatGPT, and services like Fiverr, 404’s Emanuel Maiberg was able to spin up Prototype.Press is a 404 …

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