People think journalism is draped in ulterior motives now, just wait until these publishers are just front ends for AI content created by private companies.<p>What’s the point in having sponsored content when your supposedly unpaid content is churned out by some kids who raised a couple million bucks off of this AI wave?<p>The ultimate goal of advertisement is to be invisible, to be influencing without having to admit as much, and AI is the perfect vehicle to do just that.
the owner is gannett.<p>the butchered coverage was in local newspapers, also owned by gannett.<p>which begs the question, why doesn’t the headline just, you know, name gannett?<p>edit: anyone downvoting care to indicate why? it seems rather pertinent to name the owner, given the scale, and the potential impact of using such technology at scale.
Where does the data on the sports event come from? There must be other articles already written about it for the AI to attempt to reproduce, right?<p>Why wouldn’t they just use those original articles? Or are these made up whole cloth and a CEO thought AI just magically knows what happens on high school football fields?
I'm surprised it failed this hard. AI writing has been used for a while in fantasy sports platforms for a while to put in little quips about player performances based on their recent stats and automated projections and read pretty well.
We’re not at a point where this can be a human free pipeline, but I bet you could make this work with 1-2 humans in the pipeline that review instead of the 100 you would traditionally need.