A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop
“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”
What happened
A long-running space news site published AI-written articles under the name of Dr. Katherine Chen, a former NASA engineer. She does not exist. The owner says such bylines "did not identify real people."