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That would be an incredible success story â if it weren't for the fact that it's been platforming non-existent experts as puppets to churn out AI garbage.\n\n\n\nCase in point, one of the website's authors, \"Dr. Katherine Chen,\" was identified as a former \"systems engineer\" at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who \"spent fifteen years designing autonomous systems for deep space missions,\" according to her since-deleted profile on the site.\n\n\n\nA different writer, listed as \"Dr. James Whitfield\" by Space Daily, was allegedly an \"aerospace medicine researcher at the European Space Agency.\"\n\n\n\nBut Futurism confirmed that neither Chen nor Whitfield actually exist. 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818<p class="wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip">After we started investigating Brown Brothers Media, the company began mass-deleting vast numbers of articles. It also deleted many of the fake writers, including Chen and Whitfield.</p> 819 820 821 822<p class="wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip">“Before May 2026, our publications used contributor bylines that did not identify real people, and some of those biographies included credentials that were not real,” the company conceded in a statement. “That was wrong. In May, we stopped publishing under those bylines, began removing or correcting the older articles involved, and published network-wide and per-site editorial standards. That review is ongoing.”</p> 823 824 825 826<p class="wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip">After the mass culling, <em>Space Daily</em> is still publishing plenty of articles, albeit under shadowy bylines like “Space Daily Editorial Team,” or “Mission Notes.” Many of the articles claim to have been edited by either one of the Brown Brothers Media founders, a member of its editorial team, or a constellation of contributors.</p> 827 828 829 830<p class="wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip">Its subsequent output hasn’t been inspiring. Its homepage prominently featured an <a href="https://spacedaily.com/t-rosetta-comet-67p-dust-false-stars-safe-mode/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">awkwardly-written piece</a> about an encounter between the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft and Comet 67P â which <a href="https://spacenews.com/rosetta-survives-close-encounter-with-comet-debris/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">happened over a decade ago</a>. The only reason <em>Space Daily</em> is talking about it now, obviously, is to get clicks by flooding the zone in an attempt to trick Google’s algorithms.</p> 831 832 833 834<p class="wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip">Even a brief perusal of the content being published raises red flags. A <a href="https://spacedaily.com/s-a-trillion-mile-stream-of-gas-is-falling-onto-a-triple-star-and-it-lines-up-with-the-outermost-of-its-three-tilted-rings-to-within-three-degrees/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">piece</a> with the brain-meltingly long headline “A Trillion-Mile Stream of Gas Is Falling Onto a Triple Star, and It Lines Up With the Outermost of Its Three Tilted Rings to Within Three Degrees” is virtually incomprehensible, taking the form of a jumble of words about “angles,” “fitted numbers,” and “misalignments.” (Pangram found it to be entirely AI-generated, with no sign of human editing.)</p> 835 836 837 838<p class="wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip">The article is bylined by Chris Jeremia, who appears to be a “meat proxy,” or an individual Brown Brothers Media uses by affixing their name to a fully AI-generated piece. Besides publishing articles about astrophysics and <a href="https://spacedaily.com/s-in-the-first-half-of-the-19th-century-bce-a-woman-named-anna-anna-went-back-and-forth-with-a-man-who-owed-her-travelling-husband-silver-and-her-letter-about-it-has-now-been-read-without-opening-the/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cuneiform clay tablets</a>, Jeremia also is listed as the <a href="https://vegoutmag.com/masthead/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">magazine editor of <em>VegOut</em></a>, and also finds time to <a href="https://thevessel.io/s-30-beluga-whales-face-euthanasia-after-canadian-marine-park-shuts-down-and-time-is-running-out/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cover beluga whales in Canada that face euthanasia</a> for <em>The Vessel</em> â both other AI content mills run by Brown Brothers Media.</p> 839 840 841 842<p class="wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip">She may exist in the real world, but Jeremia appears to have just as much editorial authority as Dr. Chen and Dr. Whitfield.</p> 843 844 845 846<p class="wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip"><strong>More on the AI content mills:</strong> <a href="https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire"><em>How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month</em></a></p> 847 </div> 848 <footer class="article-content-footer article-content-width"> 849 <div 850 class="google-add-us-cta collapsible-summary pw-incontent-excluded" 851 style="--google-add-us-cta-border-color: #000000" 852 > 853 <p><strong>Add Futurism as a <a href="https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=futurism.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">preferred source on Google</a> to see more of our reporting.</strong></p></div> 854 <div class="pw-incontent-excluded"> 855 <section id="author-widgets" class="recurrent-author-widgets pw-incontent-excluded"> 856 <section class="recurrent-author-widget recurrent-primary-author-widget pw-incontent-excluded"> 857 <div class="author-widget-header"> 858 <a class="author-avatar-link" href="https://futurism.com/authors/victor"> 859 <img 860 class="author-avatar" 861 src="https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/avatar_user_853_1741016486.jpg?quality=85&w=102&h=102&crop=1" 862 srcset="" 863 sizes="(max-width: 102px) 100vw, 102px" 864 alt="Victor Tangermann Avatar" 865 loading="lazy" 866 /> 867 </a> 868 <div class="author-name-title"> 869 <h2> 870 <a href="https://futurism.com/authors/victor"> 871 872 Victor Tangermann 873 </a> 874 </h2> 875 <h3 class="author-title"> 876 Senior Editor </h3> 877 </div> 878 </div> 879 <div class="author-bio pw-incontent-excluded"><p>I’m a senior editor at Futurism, where I edit and write about NASA and the private space sector, as well as topics ranging from SETI and artificial intelligence to tech and medical policy.</p> 880</div> 881 <ul class="author-socials"> 882 <li> 883 <a 884 class="svg-social-icon" 885 href="https://bsky.app/profile/vtanger.bsky.social" 886 aria-label="Bluesky" 887 target="_blank" 888 rel="noopener" 889 > 890 891<svg width="32" height="32" viewBox="0 0 32 32" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 892<path d="M 8.144531 2.660156 C 12.132812 5.671875 16.425781 11.785156 18 15.0625 C 19.574219 11.785156 23.867188 5.671875 27.855469 2.660156 C 30.734375 0.484375 35.398438 -1.199219 35.398438 4.15625 C 35.398438 5.226562 34.789062 13.140625 34.433594 14.425781 C 33.191406 18.890625 28.664062 20.03125 24.636719 19.339844 C 31.675781 20.546875 33.464844 24.539062 29.601562 28.53125 C 22.257812 36.113281 19.046875 26.628906 18.222656 24.199219 C 18.070312 23.753906 18 23.542969 18 23.722656 C 18 23.542969 17.929688 23.753906 17.777344 24.199219 C 16.953125 26.628906 13.742188 36.113281 6.398438 28.53125 C 2.53125 24.539062 4.324219 20.546875 11.363281 19.339844 C 7.335938 20.03125 2.808594 18.890625 1.566406 14.425781 C 1.210938 13.140625 0.601562 5.226562 0.601562 4.15625 C 0.601562 -1.199219 5.265625 0.484375 8.144531 2.660156 Z M 8.144531 2.660156 "/> 893</svg> 894 </a> 895 </li> 896 </ul> 897 </section> 898 <hr class="author-divider" /> 899 </section> 900 </div> 901 <section class="recurrent-tag-list-article recurrent-tag-list mb-8 md:px-0"> 902 <div class="tag-list-header"> 903 TAGS IN THIS STORY </div> 904 <ul class="tag-list flex flex-wrap list-none ml-0 lg:gap-2"> 905 <li class="tag-list-item mb-3 mr-3">
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Its publisher claims the names were unintentional." 1317 /> 1318 1319 </div> 1320 </div> 1321 </a> 1322 <div class="post-content"> 1323 <div 1324 class="post-tax-badges" 1325 > 1326 <a href="https://futurism.com/category/artificial-intelligence" class="cat-name-badge font-tertiary font-semibold text-accent-900 leading-extra-tight no-underline hover:underline"> 1327 Artificial Intelligence </a> 1328 </div> 1329 <a class="card-post-title-link" href="https://futurism.com/ai-fake-racially-diverse-writers"> 1330 <h3 class="card-post-title"> 1331 1332 1333 <span class="desktop lg:inline-block hover-link">News Site Says Itâs Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way</span> 1334 </h3> 1335 </a> 1336 1337 <div class="card-post-byline"> 1338 1339<div class="article-byline "> 1340 <div class="item-wrapper--author item-wrapper"> 1341 <div class="byline-author-wrapper"> 1342 <p class="byline-item byline-item-author"> 1343 1344<span class="byline-segment-wrapper"><span class="byline-segment"><span class="byline-text">By</span> <a class="byline-link" href="https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison">Maggie Harrison Dupré</a></span></span> 1345 </p> 1346 </div> 1347 </div> 1348 1349 1350 1351 1352 1353 1354 </div> 1355 </div> 1356 </div> 1357</div>
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