In the almost exactly three years since the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a tidal wave of AI slop has turned large swathes of the internet into an almost unrecognizable hellscape.

Text carelessly generated by a large language models has invaded countless industries, from lawyers citing cases that were hallucinated by an AI to insipid lyrics crooned by chart-topping country music artists that don’t actually exist in real life.

The world of journalism, in particular, has been facing an existential crisis as the tech lets anyone with a pulse whip up prose that sounds authoritative and true — but in reality, as we’ve seen time and again, turns out to be anything but.

Case in point, in an excellent piece for Toronto-based online magazine The Local, editor Nicholas Hune-Brown detailed how he wa

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