Legacy Outlet Space Daily Exposed for Publishing AI Content Under Fake NASA Expert Personas

An investigation by Futurism revealed that 30-year-old science outlet Space Daily was turned into an AI content farm after being acquired by Brown Brothers Media. The site fabricated detailed expert credentials—including a fake former NASA engineer and a non-existent ESA researcher—to publish massive quantities of low-quality, AI-generated articles. This case highlights a alarming trend in digital publishing where established media outlets are bought out and turned into automated content farms to exploit search algorithms for traffic. It raises serious concerns about media integrity, search engine manipulation, and the proliferation of unvetted AI slop disguised as authoritative reporting. Following the investigation, Brown Brothers Media quietly purged articles and fake author profiles before acknowledging that non-existent contributor identities had been used. AI detection tools like Pangram confirmed that published articles were completely AI-generated without human editing, with some pieces even attaching real people's names as 'meat proxies' to auto-generated content.