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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 26/08/2026

As a fan of people's sad responses to clearly inflammatory trolling on LinkedIn, this is definitely a Choice though 😂 I responded again at his page, this time I used Google's AI search to tell me if it was AI.............. sorry I used some water for this *literally*

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 26/08/2026

The dude that runs this creative agency that made this said this isn't slop, sorry guys, please forgive me

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 26/08/2026

Slop alert: Purveyor of stale shopping mall cinnamon rings, Donut King, has gone full AI with its new campaign that features a pink donut thing and AI-generated music. "Thinkerbell head creative tinker Zac Goldberg confirmed the entire production had been made using AI."

this is AI slop of a donut or something and a couple of shakes

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 14/08/2026

Halloween: The Game has been classified RC - Refused Classification by the Aus Classification Board, which put out a statement. Is related to illicit drug use and incentives. Explained here: www.classification.gov.au/about-us/med...

Halloween: The Game has been classified RC - Refused Classification by the Classification Board.

In making this decision, the Classification Board has applied the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995, the National Classification Code (Code) and the Guidelines for the Classification of Computer Games 2023 (Guidelines).

Halloween: The Game contains illicit drug use that is linked to an incentive or reward, in that use of the drug provides a gameplay advantage to the player. It is on this basis that the game has been refused classification, as required under the Code and Guidelines.

Material classified as RC cannot be sold, hired, advertised or legally imported in Australia.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 05/08/2026

getting the gang together tonight

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/07/2026

25,000 people attended in 2025, which you can see clearly if you look at this infographic they shared, which shows a 214 something and if you stare long enough you will see into God's soul.

A screenshot of the Sydney Game Fest page that showcases "Our Achievements" -- I will not write all this out because its AI-generated garbage.

An Ai-generated infographic with unreadable words and poor excuses for graphs

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/07/2026

There is a fascinating website for "Sydney Game Fest", that most exciting of games shows, founded by Melissa and James Chen in 2018!! Whoa!!! Two extremely passionate executives with huge backgrounds at Wombat Studios and EA!!!! I called, but the phone never connected.

A screenshot of AI-generated people, I believe. No point telling you what's in these images because they are AI. And they should be shot into the sun.

But this one does say: Melissa Chen
Festival Director & Co-Founder

A former lead designer at Wombat Studios with over 15 years in game development. Melissa's vision for creating a showcase platform for Australian developers led to the founding of Sydney Game Fest. Her industry connections and strategic leadership have been instrumental in the event's growth.
and

James Chen
Operations Director & Co-Founder

Former producer at Electronic Arts with extensive experience in event management. James handles the logistical challenges of running a major event while maintaining its community-focused atmosphere. His background in esports has shaped the tournament structure of the festival.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 19/07/2026

I have shiny mareeps to share, add add add 9179556138269638

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 10/07/2026

🧪 At these science AI slop sites, you have Dr Abdoulaye Djire (a real scientist at Texas A&M, LEFT) slopified into whatever the person on the left is meant to represent... That is deeply concerning. [reposted this because I had my directions wrong]

Dr. Abdoulaye Djire pictured in front of a bookshelf featuring chemistry books, photos and a mug. He is wearing a dark jacket with a red tie and white shirt. He has dreadlocks and a beard, and thick black glasses

An AI abomination that should be deleted.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 06/07/2026

There's so much that sucks about this but I'd be wholly embarrassed to be an AI Champion at the national broadcaster.

The rollout would begin with a July pilot involving 100 "AI Champions" from across the organisation before being expanded in stages, they said.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/06/2026

The bot is still available to access online. Its been changed -- its tag line edited to suggest it can't do the job of this writer. It no longer has the prompts. Outside use has been disabled. But is it true that it *can't* do the job of a writer at a Clickout site? I'm not sure.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/06/2026

And don't forget the Spanish edition? French? Arabic if you need???

The front page of GamesHub on June 29 -- Spanish Edition

The front page of GamesHub on June 29 -- French Edition

The front page of GamesHub on June 29 -- Arabic Edition -- but seems to be just casino / gambling content

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/06/2026

The Clickout Media ecosystem continues to publish videogame content to Videogamer, Escapist, GamesHub and many, many sites in other languages. GamesHub itself, once an Australian site, now has a fully German version! Sehr gut, Arschlöcher!

The front page of GamesHub on June 29 -- German Edition. Big headline says Spiele- und Glücksspielnachrichten, Anleitungen und Rezensionen and then there are five stories.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/06/2026

I looked through a bunch of this writer's work over a few days, and threw it into the (also unreliable) AI detection services. Pangram is considered one of the best at the moment. Almost every article I tried was either flagged as AI or "mixed", with percentages of AI text >50%.

A list of articles checked in Pangram across multiple sites.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/06/2026

This is a bespoke ChatGPT, so back then, I asked about the rules that underpin it. I don't want you to think I am in some AI psychosis, and I've no idea if this output means anything at all except some made up bot garbage (likely!) but it provided me with a bunch of rules.

A list of rules underpinning the AI

1. Core identity
It’s designed to write like an Escapist journalist — conversational, mildly irreverent, sceptical
of corporate spin, and explicitly not a neutral encyclopedia.
It uses:
● First-person voice (“I,” “we”)
● Direct address (“you”)
● A punchy hook at the start
● Light cynicism toward press releases
It does not:
● Copy PR language without commentary
● Sound like Wikipedia
● Act like a casino affiliate marketer
● Produce SEO sludge
2. Structural rules
Every routine news article follows a strict narrative arc:
Hook → Context → Key Details → Commentary → Wrap-up
There are hard constraints:
● Average sentence length roughly 15–30 words
● Oxford comma required
● No semicolons
● Spaced em dashes — always like this
● Limited paragraph breaks
● Minimal bullet lists

A list of rules underpinning the AI bot

3. Casino & gambling safeguards
Because this bot covers gambling content, it has additional restrictions:
● No hype language about jackpots
● No urgency framing
● No encouragement of gambling behaviour
● No positioning gambling as financial improvement
● No affiliate-style comparisons
Coverage must be factual, mildly sceptical, and journalistically framed — not promotional.
4. Tone calibration
Humour: moderate
Cynicism: noticeable
Formality: low
Enthusiasm: restrained
It’s meant to feel like a writer with opinions — not a compliance document.
5. Entity formatting rules
When referencing identifiable people, places, organizations, games, or media, it uses
structured entity tagging behind the scenes. That’s a UI layer requirement, not a stylistic
flourish.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/06/2026

When I began investigating Clickout Media and its sites more than a year ago, I was able to get access to a ChatGPT for editorial work. One particular bot was for a writer who worked across different brands, inc. the Escapist. The bot prompts were for a series of different editorial tasks.

ChatGpt bot page. Says "Escapist-style writer with sharp, verified voice"

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 23/06/2026

The next letters are CO. If you guessed COOKED...

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 23/06/2026

This change, the co-founder says, is so they can focus on tools that will help "all games grow" with their new product Audience, an "AI Growth Platform" ... Immutable saw the writing on the wall with NFT/Crypto gaming, bailed, and now is ... using AI for capturing audience data+driving revenue.

Crypto to AI
Immutable calls its Audience product “game growth software.” Launched last December, it is designed to help publishers cut through the glut of new, often free games that are released each day on the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store and PC marketplace Steam.

The company says its Audience platform can capture data on existing and prospective players that allow game publishers to both boost sales, downloads and playtime, resulting in more revenue via the in-game transactions that increasingly power the gaming industry.

Among its customers is Ubisoft, developer of the popular Assassin’s Creed games. Immutable says Ubisoft’s recently launched mobile game Might & Magic: Fates saw a threefold boost to conversion from pre-registration to actual download, up to 10.2 per cent, thanks to the Audience platform.

King River Capital doubled down on its investment, saying Immutable has the data and developer relationships that will enable Audience to thrive. “For us, the investment case has always been about infrastructure, not a single game or product cycle,” King River co-founder Chris Barter said. “Immutable is building the platform that will help the next generation of games build and scale globally.”

Ferguson declined to comment on the revenue Immutable has generated from its Audience product. He said Immutable’s current goal is to boost the amount of games on its platform, saying only that the unit economics are strong.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 23/06/2026

steam machine? you mean the union pacific big boy 4014?

Union Pacific 4014 is a preserved 4884-1 class 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Union Pacific (UP) as part of its heritage fleet. Built in November 1941 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in Schenectady, New York, it was assigned to haul heavy freight trains in the Wasatch mountain range. The locomotive was retired from revenue service on December 7, 1961, and was donated to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society; thereafter, it was displayed in Fairplex at the RailGiants Train Museum in Pomona, California.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 22/06/2026

The incentives are, as you know, completely fucked!!!!

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 19/06/2026

Wow, crazy! Australian moral victory, I guess!

an obviously fake linkedin post from the US soccer federation claiming they're making data centers

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 01/06/2026

Extremely talented bloke named Tristan Viney took this extremely serious photo of me. Because I am a serious person and about to launch a magazine and when we're billionaires the AFR can use this or whatever If you're looking for headshots, Tristan is your guy. www.tristanviney.com

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 09/04/2026

looking for 1x extremely online reddit poster to tell r/australia that @continuemag.bsky.social is the best. mods won't let me self promo because i only lurk lol lmao but the skongers let us go off www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/c...

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 08/04/2026

But Sharon ... is also Selene Nightfall, the author of a biography about Raja Jackson, Rampage Jackson's Son, according to this Amazon listing. Of course, this book's description is full of "hmmm sounds AI" and Nightfall's other books are just of recent newsy figures www.amazon.in/RAJA-JACKSON...

Text says "Follow the author" and underneath there is a picture of Selene Nightfall.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 08/04/2026

One of these approaches I received was from the "Newsletter Crew" which claims to have "230,000+ enthusiastic backers actively looking from projects like [mine]" One of their reviewers on their site, Sharon Roddy, says:

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 08/04/2026

They don't tell you about the sheer amount of scams that you're subjected to once you publish your Kickstarter page. I'm averaging 1.4 scams a day since launch. It's been crazy. So many vulnerable folks just trying to create dream projects must be harmed with these vultures.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 03/04/2026

and lastly to this man, the most good, thanks my guy 🥹

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 03/04/2026

its good friday so i just want to extend good vibes to some things that are Good, and starting with caspian, the brains behind @apwot.bsky.social, who provided so much care and guidance to @continuemag.bsky.social as we brought the mag into the world. extremely good! thanks cas!!!

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 25/03/2026

Google is failing. The fact GamesHub can rank in the news box here with this atrocious, AI-generated text and nonsense imagery is horrific -- I mean is that lead image meant to show Asha Sharma? Why does this have an image credit to Xbox for the image lmao? Does Xbox care lmao??????

The Google newsbox for the search term Game Pass Price Cut, displaying a series of websites, including ComicBook.com, Windows Central and games.gg -- plus GamesHub.

The GamesHub page for "New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Could Make Game Pass Less Expensive in 2026"

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 17/03/2026

Just got sent this LinkedIn post for "GTA Sydney" with a bunch of horrific AI, starting from the opening scene of a double Harbour Bridge? Spot the Aussie icons? There are zero, because this is horseshit. Can't imagine this is anything except rage bait these days. It got me.

Bonus points for spotting all the Aussie icons says the LinkedIn post while showing a completely terrible Sydney Harbour that looks nothing like Sydney Harbour including a bridge that has two arches

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 13/03/2026

Pushing the story forward, people also need to examine where gambling in videogames coverage sits and what audiences want Take Insider Gaming, which doesn't promote gambling on its homepage but for two small links in its footer. However there's a URL filled with casinos content and affiliate links.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 13/03/2026

Fascinating but sad stuff happening at Clickout Media sites. Videogamer scorched. Gambling content removed. No updates. Dead. If you're reporting on deindexing, you need to ask Google about this too. Dig a little deeper. Being right > being first.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 13/03/2026

Struggling to line up 9 items on an Instagram grid and fully comprehending how poorly we treat social media managers

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 11/03/2026

It's been 7 hours. We hit the goal. We hit the freaking goal man 😱😱😱😱😱😱🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 Every single person who made this a reality on day one ... thank you so much. So so much. We are doing this!!!!!!

Kickstarter page for CONTINUE: A Defiant, New Videogames Magazine, showing that 354 backers pledged 28,300 to bring this to life.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 10/03/2026

This is a dream project for @serrels.bsky.social and I, and it features incredible illustrated cover art from Jack Kirby Crosby and amazing contributors writing about the industry, games, Sega World and much more. www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 10/03/2026

I could not be more stoked to announce CONTINUE, a defiant, new games magazine that aims to celebrate and interrogate the culture, creativity and community of videogames. The Kickstarter is now live below. www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 09/03/2026

ALT:Games with some BIG:Names!

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