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Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player...
Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age of 42 this week, a tragedy that rattled fans of his 2000s career with the Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic. But in an unhinged...
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MSN Deletes Plagiarized, Incoherent AI Articles, Then Continues Cranking Out...
Earlier today, we published a story about Microsoft's MSN news portal syndicating a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article about the recent, tragic death of former NBA player Brandon Hunter. The...
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Deadspin's AI Is Suddenly Publishing Dozens of New Articles
G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin's AI is back up and running. The AI, dubbed "Deadspin Bot," was first introduced back in June, and was one of several similar bots launched by the publisher...
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News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its...
The Messenger, a news site that launched this year with a self-avowed mission to "champion balanced journalism in an era of bias, subjectivity, and misinformation" through "thorough, objective,...
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Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
There was nothing in Drew Ortiz's author biography at Sports Illustrated to suggest that he was anything other than human. "Drew has spent much of his life outdoors, and is excited to guide you through...
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People Are Absolutely Roasting Sports Illustrated's Ridiculous Excuse for Its...
Yesterday, we reported that Sports Illustrated had been publishing articles by fake writers with AI-generated profile pictures. Worse, one source alleged, at least some of the posts themselves were...
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Sports Illustrated Union Says It’s “Horrified” by Publication of AI-Generated...
Yesterday, we reported that Sports Illustrated — the esteemed magazine once considered the standard for sports journalism — has been churning out content under the bylines of fake authors with...
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Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle
Sports Illustrated publisher The Arena Group has fired two senior executives, COO Andrew Kraft and President Rob Barrett, following its recent AI fiasco. The dismissals were confirmed by a...
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Sports Illustrated Publisher Fires CEO After AI Scandal
Late last month, we reported that venerable magazine Sports Illustrated had been publishing commerce articles bylined by nonexistent writers with AI-generated profile pictures. The revelation sparked a...
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80 Percent of Americans Think Presenting AI Content as Human-Made Should Be...
In fascinating research, new polling from the research and advocacy nonprofit AI Policy Institute (AIPI) found that 80 percent of Americans think presenting AI content as human-made should be illegal....
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The Company That Published Fake AI Authors at Sports Illustrated Just Lost...
See Ya The Arena Group, which allowed for the publishing of fake authors with AI-generated headshots and allegedly AI-generated content to Sports Illustrated and its sister site TheStreet, has now lost...
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Newsweek Is Using AI in Its Articles
Old Dog, New Tricks Reporting from Nieman Lab reveals that Newsweek, a 90-year-old journalistic institution, is using AI extensively in its newsroom. Per Nieman, Newsweek first updated its editorial...
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Gannett Staff Furious Over Contract Allowing AI “to Generate News Content”
Switcheroo Writers at the Democrat & Chronicle, a Rochester, New York daily newspaper owned by the American publishing giant Gannett, are outraged after discovering that their owner quietly updated...
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The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI
Already facing scandal, the Washington Post's new-ish CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn around its dismal financial...
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Leaked Memo Claims New York Times Fired Artists to Replace Them With AI
Redundancies Amid its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI, the New York Times' union is claiming that the paper is firing human artists to replace them with artificial intelligence. In a memo obtained by...
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Washington Post Launches AI to Answer Climate Questions, But It Won't Say...
This week, The Washington Post launched a new AI tool called "Climate Answers," which the venerable newspaper describes as leveraging "artificial intelligence to help our users discover and explore The...
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Sleazy Company Buys Beloved Blog, Starts Publishing AI-Generated Slop Under...
After nearly a decade offline, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) suddenly sprang back to life this month — and with it began publishing AI-generated slop under the names of its original human...
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Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT...
Back in June, The New York Times published a fascinating investigation by its award-winning tech reporter Kashmir Hill about how automakers and various apps are secretly selling data about your driving...
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When These Journalists Tried to Review the Cybertruck, It Bricked
Brick House In yet another embarrassing bit of news for Tesla's Cybertruck, one of America's leading automotive magazines admitted that when one of its top editors went to rent one, the car straight up...
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News Outlets Are Falsely Reporting That a NASA Astronaut Is Still in the...
Despite ample reporting to the contrary, multiple news outlets are still running misleading new articles claiming that a NASA astronaut is still in the hospital after returning from the International...
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