[sickcodebruh]

I encountered versions of this days ago. Someone I knew for decades died suddenly, unexpectedly, too young. Trying to learn what happened, I searched for his name and found YouTube videos and AI-generated “news” articles that spit out variations of the same public information. It was unsettling but also pointless, nothing but noise in a situation that was already so upsetting and confusing.

[Scoundreller]

yeah, it's not just Youtube, text http/web is full of these too.

[13of40]

I just ran into one 30 minutes ago. There was a song stuck in my head and I found out it was by a different band than I always thought, so I DuckDuckGo'd a comparison between the bands. The first hit was a completely reasonable sounding article about how Band B covered a song by Band A as a single and also put it on one of their albums. Except they supposedly did it two years before Band A did the original song, the single doesn't exist, and although Band B's album exists the song isn't on it. A few years back I would have assumed someone was talking nonsense to crank out an article, but now Occam's Razor says it's just a fluff AI piece.