Iconic sports magazine layoffs nearly all of its staff after being caught publishing articles by fake, AI-generated writers

[Juke]

Article that broke the news just after Thanksgiving

https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

My favorite part:

Basic scrutiny shows that the quality of the AI authors' posts is often poor, with bizarre-sounding language and glaring formatting discrepancies.

This article about personal finance by the AI-generated Merrifield, for example, starts off with the sweeping libertarian claim that "your financial status translates to your value in society."

After that bold premise, the article explains that "people with strong financial status are revered and given special advantages everywhere around the world," and launches into a numbered list of how you can "improve your finance status" for yourself. Each number on what should be a five-point list, though, is just number one. Mistakes happen, but we can't imagine that anyone who can't count to five would give stellar financial advice.

They deleted everything when they were asked about it

Sports Illustrated reportedly published articles by fake AI-generated writers

The magazine's publisher said it would take down several articles after Futurism reported they were generated by AI.

www.businessinsider.com

Yesterday they laid off nearly all their employees




Interesting times ahead

 

[Lightshow]

Welcome to the future!

 

[Juke]

Welcome to the future!

Where you can customize your news presenter to be a baddie with a BBL>>>

 

[Basra]

So they fired the staff and thought they could cash in on free labor AI??