Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 3 August 2026
A news site staffed by AI bots, apparently funded by an AI super PAC
A reporter's interview request turned out to come from a bot, which led Model Republic to an AI-written news site attacking AI critics, with apparent links to a political consultancy.
Our read: The journalist, the glowing review, the outraged customer: any can now be synthetic. Verify before you react in public.
- Treat press requests, glowing reviews and outraged complaints as possibly synthetic. Verify before you react in public.
- Check that a reporter or reviewer is real before you reply on the record.
Source: Model Republic. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. The picture is our own graphic. How we source and credit
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