<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) vaccine information website has been defaced with AI-generated spam, mostly related to gay-themed and LGBTQ+ posts.</li><li>The website has been hosting this content since at least May 12, according to an archived version.</li><li>It's unclear who is responsible for the defacement or the purpose behind it other than pushing spam.</li><li>Official U.S. government domains have been previously hijacked for hosting scam ads and hacking services.</li><li>The HHS website is part of a broader spam operation, involving websites of NPR, Nvidia, and Stanford University, all leading to a nonsense SEO spam page hosted on wowlazy.com.</li><li>404 Media journalist Sam Cole reported on this spam operation.</li><li>HHS did not reply to inquiries from TechCrunch about the incident.</li></ul>

US government’s vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content

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