Wired and Business Insider Accidentally Published AI-Generated Slop Articles by Seemingly Fake Journalist

Renowned tech magazine Wired and global news brand Business Insider have been caught publishing what appears to be AI slop. As Press Gazette reports, news features published under the byline, “Margaux Blanchard,” have been removed wholesale. After Press Gazette reached out to the non-profit Index on Censorship over an article by the same author, the publisher concluded that the piece “appears to have been written by AI.” It’s an especially galling slip-up for Wired, a publication that routinely