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Sports Illustrated is making the leap to AI-written articles after firing a bunch of staffers
Not The Bee ^ | Feb 20, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 02/20/2023 11:47:00 AM PST by Red Badger

Last week, Sports Illustrated parent company The Arena Holdings announced that they were laying off a bunch of people.

And then in a totally unrelated note announced they were hiring everyone's favorite journalist: A.I. Algorithm.

Ross Levinsohn, Chairman and CEO of The Arena Group, said,

While AI will never replace journalism, reporting, or crafting and editing a story, rapidly improving AI technologies can create enterprise value for our brands and partners. By leveraging these proprietary tools, we believe all those who create content on our platform will find opportunities to reach consumers in new ways.

I'm not an expert, but it sure seems to me that they're replacing some journalists, reporters, and editors with AI.

I'm also no AI algorithm, and you can tell because I'm couching these claims in uncertainty. If I were a more confident journalist like AI, I'd make up a source to back up my claims.

I can't wait to see the mockery when a sports-reporting AI publishes an article with the wrong stats for something important like the NBA playoffs.

Then the bots will have to throw down with our sports reporter Hamilton Porter.


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1 posted on 02/20/2023 11:47:00 AM PST by Red Badger
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SI, we hardly knew ye.


2 posted on 02/20/2023 11:48:03 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Red Badger
Fired staffers can learn to code...
3 posted on 02/20/2023 11:48:26 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: Red Badger

Before going woke, SI used to regularly have great articles written by great writers, back in the day.


4 posted on 02/20/2023 11:48:40 AM PST by simpson96
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To: Red Badger

Well, there goes sports writing; it used to often be fun, inventive and interesting.


5 posted on 02/20/2023 11:49:17 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

AI won’t put trannies and obese bikini models on the cover if it is intelligent.


6 posted on 02/20/2023 11:49:19 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Olog-hai
I haven't read it in years. Aren't they doing transvestite swimsuit issues now?

7 posted on 02/20/2023 11:50:10 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Olog-hai

The more journolists out of work the better. SI was as woke as any of the lamestream news outlets.

Time for them all to revel in the world they toiled to create.


8 posted on 02/20/2023 11:50:22 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Red Badger

Now I’ll just need AI to ghost read it.


9 posted on 02/20/2023 11:50:56 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just postill clickbait!)
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To: Red Badger

It can’t be too hard to program the “AI” to make sure each sentence in the article has words like “oppression”, “adversity”, and “overcome” if the athlete is black.


10 posted on 02/20/2023 11:52:46 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

Is AI the one who suggested tranny swimsuit issues?


11 posted on 02/20/2023 11:55:15 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: Olog-hai

The jump the shark moment was years ago when they did the obligatory lets splash trannies in a heterosexual man’s magazine move.


12 posted on 02/20/2023 12:03:17 PM PST by jarwulf
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To: Jamestown1630

“Well, there goes sports writing; it used to often be fun, inventive and interesting.”

In the last 20 years it has gone woke.


13 posted on 02/20/2023 12:12:11 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: alternatives?

I’m remembering newspapers. But I probably haven’t read them in 20 years anyway.


14 posted on 02/20/2023 12:18:34 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

Why not, they already went to AI. models and photographers!!


15 posted on 02/20/2023 12:20:31 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

https://www.otakuhq.com/archive/PVC3557main.jpg

The next swimsuit issue................


16 posted on 02/20/2023 12:24:20 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Jamestown1630

I haven’t read newspapers in a long time either. The on-line authors seem like they have a quota to make at least one dig at conservatives in every article.


17 posted on 02/20/2023 12:24:29 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: Red Badger

Well, they’ve been having AI-imagined swimsuit models, lately, so why not?


18 posted on 02/20/2023 12:40:44 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Red Badger

The hilarious thing about this is that “journalists” are next. They made themselves expendable by chasing away over 50% of their audience and the news outlets can’t afford to keep them.

In steps Mr./Mrs./Ze/Zer/They/Them AI.

Don’t get excited, though. Mr./Mrs./Ze/Zer/They/Them AI will be programed to spout the leftist line, but now it won’t need multiple extravagant salaries to do so...


19 posted on 02/20/2023 12:46:02 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: Red Badger
Sports Illustrated is making the leap to AI-written articles after firing a bunch of staffers

Who gives a rat's A$$!

Never read it before... won't be reading their crap anytime in the future.

20 posted on 02/20/2023 12:56:42 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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