My side project is a fake newspaper that writes itself

I wanted to show people how easy it is to make fake news, so I built a site that does nothing else. Every article and every photo on The Plausible Post is generated. None of it happened.

It takes real headlines and trending topics as a mood board and writes something new around the same themes: events that never took place, people who don't exist. They read like real articles, and I think anyone who isn't reading carefully will go straight past that initially.

A new article goes up every 50 minutes or so. The writing is GPT-6 Luna and the photos are GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst, both of which I switched to today. Luna is the interesting one: it costs about ten cents per million input tokens, which means the text on that whole site is close to free. The photos are what actually cost money.

There's no money in this and there isn't meant to be. It started as a fun experiment to see what's actually possible, and now I mostly think of it as a warning.

Take a look and see what gives it away for you.