Sleazy Company Buys Beloved Blog, Starts Publishing AI-Generated Slop Under the Names of Real Writers Who No Longer Work There

After nearly a decade offline, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) suddenly sprang back to life this month — and with it began publishing AI-generated slop under the names of its original human bloggers, some of whom hadn’t written for the site since the year 2009.

Owned by AOL when it was shut down in 2015, the beloved blog, as 404 Media and others report, was later purchased by a Hong Kong-based ad agency called Web Orange Limited. TUAW‘s current “About” page claims the company purchased the site “without its original content” from Yahoo…