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.” One such ......
Nov 28, 2023