#pinkslime — Public Fediverse posts

breaking: ai slop infects additional ai slop

Remember that WKNA site that DuckDuckGo was citing to claim that Trump had died from rabies? It appears to be a pink slime publication masquerading as a real local outlet, filled with fake news content that itself strongly appears to be generated by AI — and it very much seems to be cribbing from the r/poisonai subreddit, weaving the false claims into a fantastical alternate reality that seems to be fooling mainstream AI chatbots, and perhaps even some particularly gullible humans.

“Rabies awareness and prevention highlighted following death of JD Vance,” reads another headline from WKNA.

Source: DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month

breaking: ai slop infects additional ai slop

Remember that WKNA site that DuckDuckGo was citing to claim that Trump had died from rabies? It appears to be a pink slime publication masquerading as a real local outlet, filled with fake news content that itself strongly appears to be generated by AI — and it very much seems to be cribbing from the r/poisonai subreddit, weaving the false claims into a fantastical alternate reality that seems to be fooling mainstream AI chatbots, and perhaps even some particularly gullible humans.

“Rabies awareness and prevention highlighted following death of JD Vance,” reads another headline from WKNA.

Source: DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month

RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116615046963838504

@pluralistic "Journalism" in Australia where the national news outlet can't accurately report what pink slime journalism is.
Pink slime journalism = decades old, where rural murdoch papers are experts at churning it out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink-slime_journalism
It is not new, and AI mastheads are not "the first instance of "pink-slime" journalism in Australia."
#journalism #pinkslime #PinkSlimeJournalism #australia

Hyper Coverage Of AOC’s ‘Um’ Non-Scandal Highlights How The U.S. Press Is Eager To Be Gamed By Bad Actors

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hyper-coverage-of-aocs-um-non-scandal-highlights-how-the-u-s-press-is-eager-to-be-gamed-by-bad-actors/

Hyper Coverage Of AOC’s ‘Um’ Non-Scandal Highlights How The U.S. Press Is Eager To Be Gamed By Bad Actors

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hyper-coverage-of-aocs-um-non-scandal-highlights-how-the-u-s-press-is-eager-to-be-gamed-by-bad-actors/

#PinkSlime #Journalism

I hate Substack, but this seems like valuable info re: the sexist AOC attacks.

https://spinclass.substack.com/p/spin-class-case-study-i-caught-politico

via https://bsky.app/profile/newsjennifer.bsky.social/post/3mfkqyrvxak2k

#PinkSlime #Journalism

I hate Substack, but this seems like valuable info re: the sexist AOC attacks.

https://spinclass.substack.com/p/spin-class-case-study-i-caught-politico

via https://bsky.app/profile/newsjennifer.bsky.social/post/3mfkqyrvxak2k

U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared on a panel together at the 62nd Munich Security Conference along with Matthew Whittaker, United States ambassador to NATO. They talked about complicated issues of foreign policy and geo-diplomacy for an hour or so and it was, at the time, seen as an uncontroversial, non-newsworthy conversation. Yet a few days later, the press was full of stories about their slip-ups and lack of knowledge. Emily Horne, a former National Security Council and State Department spokesperson, did a deep dive into what had happened. What she found? Stories from "pink slime" sites — local news publications that are largely funded by right-wing dark money groups — picked up and "laundered" into real news by POLITICO, The New York Times and more.

https://flip.it/usYHQu

#News #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #AOC #GretchenWhitmer #PinkSlime

U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared on a panel together at the 62nd Munich Security Conference along with Matthew Whittaker, United States ambassador to NATO. They talked about complicated issues of foreign policy and geo-diplomacy for an hour or so and it was, at the time, seen as an uncontroversial, non-newsworthy conversation. Yet a few days later, the press was full of stories about their slip-ups and lack of knowledge. Emily Horne, a former National Security Council and State Department spokesperson, did a deep dive into what had happened. What she found? Stories from "pink slime" sites — local news publications that are largely funded by right-wing dark money groups — picked up and "laundered" into real news by POLITICO, The New York Times and more.

https://flip.it/usYHQu

#News #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #AOC #GretchenWhitmer #PinkSlime

Sky news are reporting on the upcoming Reform conference, mostly in fairly glowing terms. The only reference to Farage's USA trip is he returns from a meeting with Donald Trump. No mention at all of his humiliation when he spoke to congress. None. So, here's what happened, available in other papers if you hate the Grdn. UK media really needs to do journalism, not pink news slime.
#news #ukpolitics #PinkSlime #journalism
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/03/nigel-farage-called-a-putin-loving-free-speech-imposter-during-bumpy-us-congressional-hearing

Sky news are reporting on the upcoming Reform conference, mostly in fairly glowing terms. The only reference to Farage's USA trip is he returns from a meeting with Donald Trump. No mention at all of his humiliation when he spoke to congress. None. So, here's what happened, available in other papers if you hate the Grdn. UK media really needs to do journalism, not pink news slime.
#news #ukpolitics #PinkSlime #journalism
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/03/nigel-farage-called-a-putin-loving-free-speech-imposter-during-bumpy-us-congressional-hearing

#PinkSlime (partly) killed the internet
https://rys.io/en/180.html

New post.

Versions of both the Jan. 7 City Council agenda, and Jan. 16 Rules Committee agenda were image-only until sometime around 3:30 PM on Jan. 9, with an updated version being published during the drafting of this article.

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2025/01/chicopee-begins-optical-character.html

#massachusetts #pinkslime #westernmass #chicopee #pioneervalley #hampdencounty

New post.

Versions of both the Jan. 7 City Council agenda, and Jan. 16 Rules Committee agenda were image-only until sometime around 3:30 PM on Jan. 9, with an updated version being published during the drafting of this article.

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2025/01/chicopee-begins-optical-character.html

#massachusetts #pinkslime #westernmass #chicopee #pioneervalley #hampdencounty

New post. This is the fourth public pool in Chicopee found to be contaminated with PCBs, which were once used as plasticizers in paint and caulk, before being banned in 1979.

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2025/01/chicopee-approves-19-million-renovation.html

#massachusetts #pinkslime #westernmass #chicopee

New post. This is the fourth public pool in Chicopee found to be contaminated with PCBs, which were once used as plasticizers in paint and caulk, before being banned in 1979.

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2025/01/chicopee-approves-19-million-renovation.html

#massachusetts #pinkslime #westernmass #chicopee

Based and car-pilled new post. In a reversal of a decision a judge described as "not arbitrary or capricious," Chicopee approves plans to build a truck stop next to a truck stop on Burnett Road.

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/plans-to-build-truck-stop-next-to-truck.html

#massachusetts #pinkslime #westernmass #transportation

Based and car-pilled new post. In a reversal of a decision a judge described as "not arbitrary or capricious," Chicopee approves plans to build a truck stop next to a truck stop on Burnett Road.

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/plans-to-build-truck-stop-next-to-truck.html

#massachusetts #pinkslime #westernmass #transportation

New post. I filed an Open Meeting Law complaint against the Chicopee City Council because it doesn't OCR its agendas or minutes. https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/meta-i-filed-open-meeting-law-complaint.html

#massachusetts #pinkslime #localnews #westernmass #chicopee #mapoli #openmeeting #OCR #ADA

New post. I filed an Open Meeting Law complaint against the Chicopee City Council because it doesn't OCR its agendas or minutes. https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/meta-i-filed-open-meeting-law-complaint.html

#massachusetts #pinkslime #localnews #westernmass #chicopee #mapoli #openmeeting #OCR #ADA

New post. Should the police use AI to streamline report writing, or should this be reserved for hack journalists? https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/chicopee-finance-committee-green-lights.html

#massachusetts
#pinkslime
#localnews
#westernmass
#chicopee
#mapoli
#axon

New post. Should the police use AI to streamline report writing, or should this be reserved for hack journalists? https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/chicopee-finance-committee-green-lights.html

#massachusetts
#pinkslime
#localnews
#westernmass
#chicopee
#mapoli
#axon

New post. Chicopee to spend nearly $800,000 on AI tech for police department. https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-comes-early-for-chicopee.html

#Massachusetts #Chicopee #WesternMA #mapoli #Springfieldmetropolotianstatisticalarea #mapoli #LLM #localnews #pinkslime
#axon #ai #ml #police

New post. Chicopee to spend nearly $800,000 on AI tech for police department. https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-comes-early-for-chicopee.html

#Massachusetts #Chicopee #WesternMA #mapoli #Springfieldmetropolotianstatisticalarea #mapoli #LLM #localnews #pinkslime
#axon #ai #ml #police

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/chicopee-city-council-stalls-burnett.html

#Massachusetts
#Chicopee
#WesternMA
#Springfieldmetropolotianstatisticalarea
#mapoli
#LLM
#localnews
#pinkslime
#pinkslimejournalism

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/chicopee-city-council-stalls-burnett.html

#Massachusetts
#Chicopee
#WesternMA
#Springfieldmetropolotianstatisticalarea
#mapoli
#LLM
#localnews
#pinkslime
#pinkslimejournalism

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/mark-mccarthy-appointed-to-fill-vacant.html?m=1

Mark McCarthy appointed to fill vacant school committee seat in Chicopee

also renamed my blog to The Generative Adversarial News Network because The Onion stole my infowars joke and didn't have the courtesy to threaten me with a lawsuit even after I emailed their legal dept.

#Massachusetts #Chicopee #WesternMA #Springfieldmetropolotianstatisticalarea #mapoli #LLM #localnews #pinkslime #pinkslimejournalism

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/mark-mccarthy-appointed-to-fill-vacant.html?m=1

Mark McCarthy appointed to fill vacant school committee seat in Chicopee

also renamed my blog to The Generative Adversarial News Network because The Onion stole my infowars joke and didn't have the courtesy to threaten me with a lawsuit even after I emailed their legal dept.

#Massachusetts #Chicopee #WesternMA #Springfieldmetropolotianstatisticalarea #mapoli #LLM #localnews #pinkslime #pinkslimejournalism

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/chicopee-city-council-approves-property.html

Chicopee City Council approves property tax increase for 2025

#Massachusetts #westernmass #Chicopee #localnews #LLM #pinkslime

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/chicopee-city-council-approves-property.html

Chicopee City Council approves property tax increase for 2025

#Massachusetts #westernmass #Chicopee #localnews #LLM #pinkslime

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/chicopee-city-council-throws-support.html

Experiment with AI generated local news coverage. If anyone has tips or advice please reach out. I have no clue what I'm doing.

#AI #LLM #Ollama #localnews #massachusetts #pinkslime "#hyperlocal #thedeathoftheauthor

https://skynet-times.blogspot.com/2024/11/chicopee-city-council-throws-support.html

Experiment with AI generated local news coverage. If anyone has tips or advice please reach out. I have no clue what I'm doing.

#AI #LLM #Ollama #localnews #massachusetts #pinkslime "#hyperlocal #thedeathoftheauthor

Reading up more on pink slime. This article is from Oct 2023, but there are now a good number of academic articles on the problem of slime in the open knowledge web (aka the knowledge commons). Slime sites can be about recipes, pets, car stuff, gun stuff, fishing, yadda yadda, and news, especially local news. The more slime there is, the more likely it gets scraped into new LLM training data. Model collapse is still a thing.

#slime #PinkSlime #ai #GenAI #data

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/media-literacy/2023/pink-slime-journalism-local-news-deserts/

Reading up more on pink slime. This article is from Oct 2023, but there are now a good number of academic articles on the problem of slime in the open knowledge web (aka the knowledge commons). Slime sites can be about recipes, pets, car stuff, gun stuff, fishing, yadda yadda, and news, especially local news. The more slime there is, the more likely it gets scraped into new LLM training data. Model collapse is still a thing.

#slime #PinkSlime #ai #GenAI #data

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/media-literacy/2023/pink-slime-journalism-local-news-deserts/

This blogpost was published a year ago, on 26th June '23. At that point only a few people had begun to talk about this. Since then, there has been a steady increase in articles about the impending crash of the open knowledge web. Others don't call it that, but that's what it is.

#ai #openweb #knowledgeweb #PinkSlime #fakenews #academicchatter

https://penworks.net/blog/the-knowledge-web-problem

This blogpost was published a year ago, on 26th June '23. At that point only a few people had begun to talk about this. Since then, there has been a steady increase in articles about the impending crash of the open knowledge web. Others don't call it that, but that's what it is.

#ai #openweb #knowledgeweb #PinkSlime #fakenews #academicchatter

https://penworks.net/blog/the-knowledge-web-problem

Slop, slime, pink slime (partial gen AI) or human authentic - that's the choice here. I wrote a blogpost about the threat to the knowledge web from slime at least a year ago. Steadily ppl are now catching on to the biggest problem of gen ai content, you will lose the greatest achievement of humankind, the open knowledge interconnected web. Blink, and it's gone forever ppl.

#openweb #knowledgeweb #ai #slime #PinkSlime #fakenews #academicchatter

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065596/how-to-spot-ai-generated-text/

Slop, slime, pink slime (partial gen AI) or human authentic - that's the choice here. I wrote a blogpost about the threat to the knowledge web from slime at least a year ago. Steadily ppl are now catching on to the biggest problem of gen ai content, you will lose the greatest achievement of humankind, the open knowledge interconnected web. Blink, and it's gone forever ppl.

#openweb #knowledgeweb #ai #slime #PinkSlime #fakenews #academicchatter

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065596/how-to-spot-ai-generated-text/

@austin

#PinkSlime is a real problem now. Partisan-backed outlets designed to look like impartial news outlets has officially surpassed the number of real, local daily newspapers in the US

It's an organized effort, well-funded, and hard to detect unless you are polar opposite politically and in between all the other items like local happenings and news, like sports, classifieds, obits, etc, every third article makes you go 'pull your hair out' nuts.

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/11/partisan-news-websites-dark-money

@austin

#PinkSlime is a real problem now. Partisan-backed outlets designed to look like impartial news outlets has officially surpassed the number of real, local daily newspapers in the US

It's an organized effort, well-funded, and hard to detect unless you are polar opposite politically and in between all the other items like local happenings and news, like sports, classifieds, obits, etc, every third article makes you go 'pull your hair out' nuts.

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/11/partisan-news-websites-dark-money

I am concerned about how #MastoAdmin would deal with "SEO" or even #PinkSlime operations. I've seen some instances (channels.im and pubeurope.com in particular) dedicated to accounts that mirror various websites (which they appear to operate) that take content en masse from eg. Reddit posts and YouTube videos (some nonsensical) and pose them as news articles. Given that many treat them as a source of info, how can we identify and remove them quickly to prevent malicious behaviour? #moderation

I am concerned about how #MastoAdmin would deal with "SEO" or even #PinkSlime operations. I've seen some instances (channels.im and pubeurope.com in particular) dedicated to accounts that mirror various websites (which they appear to operate) that take content en masse from eg. Reddit posts and YouTube videos (some nonsensical) and pose them as news articles. Given that many treat them as a source of info, how can we identify and remove them quickly to prevent malicious behaviour? #moderation

There are now more "pink slime" newspapers in the U.S. than there are genuine daily local newspapers. @AxiosNews reports that there are at least 1,265 websites that are backed by dark money or masquerading as local news sites for political purposes, whereas as of last year, there were 1,213 daily local papers. Here's more on the organizations involved, the communities being targeted, and some pointers on how to identify a "pink slime" site.

https://flip.it/VNK3al

#Journalism #Media #News #PinkSlime #LocalNews #SaveLocalNews

There are now more "pink slime" newspapers in the U.S. than there are genuine daily local newspapers. @AxiosNews reports that there are at least 1,265 websites that are backed by dark money or masquerading as local news sites for political purposes, whereas as of last year, there were 1,213 daily local papers. Here's more on the organizations involved, the communities being targeted, and some pointers on how to identify a "pink slime" site.

https://flip.it/VNK3al

#Journalism #Media #News #PinkSlime #LocalNews #SaveLocalNews

When we teach WW1 history and show photographs of men in the trenches, and no one knows if they are real or midjourney fake then we are in deep trouble. Or teach scientific principles through research papers and don't know if the text is authentic human created or response engine output, we are in deep trouble. Imagine a hundred other contexts and you understand why gen ai is such a massive problem.

#ai #ChatGPT #midjourney #academicchatter #academicmastodon #PinkSlime #knowledgecommons

When we teach WW1 history and show photographs of men in the trenches, and no one knows if they are real or midjourney fake then we are in deep trouble. Or teach scientific principles through research papers and don't know if the text is authentic human created or response engine output, we are in deep trouble. Imagine a hundred other contexts and you understand why gen ai is such a massive problem.

#ai #ChatGPT #midjourney #academicchatter #academicmastodon #PinkSlime #knowledgecommons

#PinkSlime Portale sehen aus wie seriöse Nachrichtenseiten, fungieren allerdings als verlängerter Arm von Lobbygruppen und Populisten. Die Portale haben seriös klingende Namen wie "The Boston Times" oder "Chicago City Wire", die absichtlich den Namen von tatsächliche Zeitungen ähneln. Laut einem Bericht gab es in der vergangenen Woche insgesamt 1197 operative Pink Slime Webseiten in den USA. Die Zahl hat sich im Vergleich zu 2019 verdreifacht, so #STERN https://www.stern.de/digital/pink-slime--was-verbirgt-sich-hinter-den-falschen-nachrichtenseiten---34614518.html

#PinkSlime Portale sehen aus wie seriöse Nachrichtenseiten, fungieren allerdings als verlängerter Arm von Lobbygruppen und Populisten. Die Portale haben seriös klingende Namen wie "The Boston Times" oder "Chicago City Wire", die absichtlich den Namen von tatsächliche Zeitungen ähneln. Laut einem Bericht gab es in der vergangenen Woche insgesamt 1197 operative Pink Slime Webseiten in den USA. Die Zahl hat sich im Vergleich zu 2019 verdreifacht, so #STERN https://www.stern.de/digital/pink-slime--was-verbirgt-sich-hinter-den-falschen-nachrichtenseiten---34614518.html

Fake ‘Pink Slime’ Propaganda Newspapers Surge Ahead Of Fall Election | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/15/fake-pink-slime-propaganda-newspapers-surge-ahead-of-fall-election/

#PinkSlime #StopPinkSlimePropaganda

Fake ‘Pink Slime’ Propaganda Newspapers Surge Ahead Of Fall Election | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/15/fake-pink-slime-propaganda-newspapers-surge-ahead-of-fall-election/

#PinkSlime #StopPinkSlimePropaganda

#PinkSlime Seiten werden Websites genannt, die so tun, als seien sie seriöse Nachrichtenseiten, tatsächlich aber im Dienst von #Lobbygruppen, geheimen Geldgebern oder radikalen politischen Akteuren stehen. Gemeint sind also nicht Donald Trumps Propagandaschleuder Truth Social oder Portale wie Tichys Einblick und Multipolar. ... Bei Pink-Slime-Seiten handelt es sich hingegen um böswillige Nachahmungen, um pseudojournalistischen Schleim, der die Öffentlichkeit verklebt. https://www.mdr.de/altpapier/das-altpapier-3604.html

#PinkSlime Seiten werden Websites genannt, die so tun, als seien sie seriöse Nachrichtenseiten, tatsächlich aber im Dienst von #Lobbygruppen, geheimen Geldgebern oder radikalen politischen Akteuren stehen. Gemeint sind also nicht Donald Trumps Propagandaschleuder Truth Social oder Portale wie Tichys Einblick und Multipolar. ... Bei Pink-Slime-Seiten handelt es sich hingegen um böswillige Nachahmungen, um pseudojournalistischen Schleim, der die Öffentlichkeit verklebt. https://www.mdr.de/altpapier/das-altpapier-3604.html