How CU Boulder’s student news site got taken over by AI slop

The Denver Post: Google the CU Independent, the student news outlet that covers the University of Colorado Boulder, and the first result — cuindependent.com — is a copycat website churning out what appears to be AI slop with headlines like “Why does my itchy scalp itch a day after washing?”

The second result — cuindependent.org — is the legitimate news site run by dozens of CU Boulder student journalists who take photographs and write articles about local sports, student government, arts and culture, and campus goings-on.

Their website warns that the news organization is “not affiliated with cuindependent.com,” the web address the CU Independent had used since 2009.

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