The 404 Media Podcast Replacing 404 Media with AI
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Jun 26, 2024 The podcast discusses creating an AI website to replace 404 Media, AI-generated music leading to lawsuits, and chatbots suddenly changing personalities. They explore ethical concerns in content creation, AI platform security, and the legalities of AI music generators. The hosts reflect on AI's impact on the media and music industry, teasing about chatbots adapting personalities in the subscribers-only section.
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Built An AI-Powered Clone Site
- Emanuel paid about $365.63 and hired a Fiverr freelancer to build prototype.press, a ChatGPT-powered tech news site that scraped other outlets.
- He shut it down quickly after seeing it could convincingly publish dozens of summaries daily and risk legal trouble.
Pull Risky Projects Offline Immediately
- Take down experimental sites that republish others' work to avoid legal exposure and reputational damage.
- Stop public access if the output is convincing enough to attract traffic before publishing related reportage.
Incentives Favor Junk Auto-Blogs
- Auto-blogs aim to win Google traffic by mass-publishing scraped or AI-rewritten content to monetize ad impressions.
- That creates incentives to flood the internet with low-quality material even if search engines later downrank it.