http://simonwillison.net/2025-01-28T18:55:09+00:00Simon Willison2025-01-28T18:55:09+00:002025-01-28T18:55:09+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/28/ben-collins/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lgqry4ewgs2o"><p>Goddammit. The Onion once again posted an article in which a portion of the artwork came from an AI-generated Shutterstock image. This article was over a month old and only a portion of the image. We took it down immediately. [...]</p> <p>To be clear, The Onion has a several-person art team and they work their asses off. Sometimes they work off of stock photo bases and go from there. That's what happened this time. This was not a problem until stock photo services became flooded with AI slop. We'll reinforce process and move on.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lgqry4ewgs2o">Ben Collins</a>, CEO, The Onion</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ethics">ethics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/the-onion">the-onion</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/slop">slop</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics">ai-ethics</a></p>

2010-03-25T18:43:24+00:002010-03-25T18:43:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Mar/25/onion/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/bhvhz/the_onion_uses_django_and_why_it_matters_to_us/">The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us</a></strong></p> The Onion ported their main site from PHP and Drupal to Django in three months with a team of four developers, including a full migration of their archived content. Their developers answer questions about the switch in this thread on the Django sub-reddit. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/drupal">drupal</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/php">php</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/reddit">reddit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/the-onion">the-onion</a></p>

2009-03-07T11:11:19+00:002009-03-07T11:11:19+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Mar/7/lovecraftian/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/lovecraftian_school_board_member?utm_source=a-section">Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum</a></strong></p> “West says the school inadequately prepares students for the black seas of infinity.” <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/funny">funny</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lovecraft">lovecraft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/the-onion">the-onion</a></p>

2003-03-17T23:49:23+00:002003-03-17T23:49:23+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2003/Mar/17/theOnionGetsItSpotOn/#atom-tag

<p>Okay, now I have absolutely no intention of taking this blog in a political direction (for the record I'm anti-war) but I've seen a couple of links to <a href="http://www.theonion.com/">the Onion</a> recently that I just can't resist blogging. First up is <a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3701/bush_nightmare.html">Bush: "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Propserity is Finally Over"</a> which was written two years ago but, read now, just looks spookily accurate (link <a href="http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/000286.php#000286" title="Back to the Future">via Back-to-Iraq</a>). The second one is the absolute classic <a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/god_clarifies_dont_kill.html">God Angrily Clarifies "Don't Kill" Rule</a>, linked <a href="http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/000645.html#000645" title="It&apos;s a question of when, not if">by Simon Brunning</a>.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/the-onion">the-onion</a></p>