Futurism: USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage

Futurism: USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage. “The Dispatch — which is notably owned by USA Today publisher Gannett — 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’s ethics disclosure states that all AI-spun content featured in its reporting ‘must be verified for accuracy and factuality before being used in reporting,’ we’d be surprised if a single human eye was laid on these articles before publishing.”