{"id":170895,"date":"2023-08-30T03:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/usa-today-owner-pauses-ai-articles-after-butchering-sports-coverage"},"modified":"2023-08-30T03:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:22:51","slug":"usa-today-owner-pauses-ai-articles-after-butchering-sports-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/usa-today-owner-pauses-ai-articles-after-butchering-sports-coverage","title":{"rendered":"USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/usa-today-owner-pauses-ai-articles-after-butchering-sports-coverage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That was fast.<\/p>\n<p><em>The<\/em> <em>Columbus Dispatch<\/em>, a newspaper serving the Columbus, Ohio area, has suspended its AI efforts after its AI-powered sports writing bot was caught churning out horrible, robotic articles about local sports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/columbus\/2023\/08\/28\/dispatch-gannett-ai-newsroom-tool\" class=\"\"><em>Axios<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Dispatch \u2014 <\/em>which is notably owned by <em>USA Today<\/em> publisher Gannett \u2014 only started publishing the AI-generated sports pieces on August 18, using the bot to drum up quick-hit stories about the winners and losers in regional high school football and soccer matches. And though the paper\u2019s ethics disclosure states that all AI-spun content featured in its reporting \u201cmust be verified for accuracy and factuality before being used in reporting,\u201d we\u2019d be surprised if a single human eye was laid on these articles before publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was fast. The Columbus Dispatch, a newspaper serving the Columbus, Ohio area, has suspended its AI efforts after its AI-powered sports writing bot was caught churning out horrible, robotic articles about local sports, Axios reports. The Dispatch \u2014 which is notably owned by USA Today publisher Gannett \u2014 only started publishing the AI-generated sports [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}