US EditionUSA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage
- Gannett, a newspaper chain, has stopped using an AI tool called LedeAI to write high school sports articles after the technology produced several flawed and mocked reports. These articles lacked detail, used odd language, and sounded like they were written by a computer with no knowledge of sports.
- Multiple Gannett outlets, including the Columbus Dispatch, Louisville Courier Journal, AZ Central, Florida Today, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, published similar stories written by LedeAI. These reports often featured repetitive language, described "high school football action," and repeated the date of the games multiple times.
- Gannett has temporarily halted its use of LedeAI in all markets that were utilizing the service. The company stated that it is experimenting with automation and AI to enhance its journalism but is continually evaluating vendors to ensure the highest standards are met.
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Newspaper giant pauses AI experiment after readers mock bizarre sports reporting
Gannett, the parent company for USA Today and a number of local newspapers, has paused an artificial intelligence experiment following criticisms that AI-generated sports articles were awkwardly phrased and lacked details. A handful of Gannett-owned papers briefly published AI-generated sports stories this month based on box score data, Axios reported, which were quickly met with condemnation from social media commenters. The Columbus Dispatch…
Gannett halts AI-written sports recaps after readers mocked the stories
Readers visiting the Columbus Dispatch's high school sports section to catch up on their teams might have encountered a new sportswriter with a prolific byline - and an odd way with words.
Gannett to pause AI experiment after botched high school sports articles
By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Newspaper chain Gannett has paused the use of an artificial intelligence tool to write high school sports dispatches after the technology made several major flubs in articles in at least one of its papers. Several high school sports reports written by an AI service called LedeAI and published by the Columbus Dispatch earlier this month went viral on social media this week — and not in a good way. In one no…
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