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After CNET paved the way to unethical AI publishing, a new report alleges that Sports Illustrated honchos decided to jump on the bandwagon with software-generated stories but with a bizarre twist: The once mighty magazine somehow thought it would be OK to make up fake names and profile photos for writers who don’t exist. And then when they were caught, someone decided to create new fake names for other writers who also do not exist:
https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-union-horrified-ai-writers
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/sports-illustrated-artificial-intelligence-writers-futurism/
To put the ethical misdeeds into proper context, making up fake names and photos for writers who do not exist is only slightly better than dropping a deuce on a page and then offering that to readers. Or not. At least that would be real.
What now? Fortunately, the AI stories were deleted. But SI writers who actually exist are in open revolt. There is only one possible next step for a news outlet that wants to regain respectability and survive: All of the cretins who approved or created the idiocy must be canned immediately.
Sports Illustrated suits are claiming that the stories were produced by a third party company that claims it used humans to “write” the stories and that fake names were used to “protect the privacy” of the “writers.”