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Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College's Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm

futurism.com · Maggie Harrison Dupré · last updated
Earlier this month, student leaders at Emerson College’s student radio station, WECB, received an urgent email. The email was from a student at the University of Oregon, who went on to explain that her professor had, in class, pulled up what they believed to be an article published by WECB.

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