Sports Illustrated’s reported use of AI authors, alleged cover-up causes outrage

NEW YORK — Explosive allegations that Sports Illustrated ran articles under artificial-intelligence authors — and later attempted to cover up doing so — continue to outrage readers, the outlet’s employees and the journalism community at large.

On Monday, the website Futurism reported fake authors with AI-created headshots populated the SI site and would be periodically removed and replaced with others.

Some of the actual articles were also created by AI, a source claimed.

“The content is absolutely AI-generated,” that source told Futurism, “no matter how much they say that it’s not.”