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NPR's website has posted a warning stating that it will not ask guests for money, in response to AI impersonation scams.

A group of middle school students turned the comment section of an episode of NPR's podcast Wild Card on Spotify into an impromptu group chat space.

NPR staff initially misidentified these strange comments as bots.

These comments actually came from a group of middle school students, a fact identified by a Gen Z younger colleague.

NPR is a public media organization targeting adult audiences, with public affairs and cultural content at its core.

NPR faces a trade-off between embracing younger audiences and strengthening comment section moderation to maintain its original tone.

Minors congregating in public comment sections that lack dedicated moderation raises issues involving content safety, privacy protection, and information noise.

NPR staff discovered that a large number of strangely worded comments had flooded the comment sections of their podcast episodes published on Spotify.

This article is compiled based on NPR reporting, and some details are pending further verification.

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