AI hijacked my website: abandoned domains now resurrected as AI sloppelgängers impersonating artists
jonippolito · x · 2026-11-10
Artist Jon Ippolito documents how his lapsed domain now serves an AI-generated impostor of his Indigenous cultural-knowledge project, complete with unauthorized photos and fabricated details. He coins "sloppelgänger" for AI clones of real sites, citing artist Michael Naimark and even SimCity's original Micropolis, framing it against Musk's app-free, AI-generated future: what we lose when AI generates instead of retrieves.
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