The number of execs that got canned suggests this was not about AI articles.
Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal
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#32Re: Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal
#33The number of execs that got canned suggests this was not about AI articles.
It does strike me as ironic that they fired him after a meeting about cutting costs and increasing operating efficiencies.
I would guess AI authors would do both. There has to be more to the story for sure.
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#3470 years ago there was a job for someone to stand in an elevator and press a button for the rider. Today we have jobs for people to rearticulate box scores. If a computer can do it adequately it should be done by a computer. I don't want to bring back the button pusher and I'm okay with ai authors. But they really shouldn't lie about it
There are still elevators like that in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago. In addition to the elevators, it's a great place to be if you're a musician. There are studios, practice rooms, and musical instrument shops too.
> If a computer can do it adequately it should be done by a computer
Wasn't there recently some entirely AI "musician"? I'm guessing the person you're replying to doesn't see an ongoing need for musicians either.
Re: Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal
#3570 years ago there was a job for someone to stand in an elevator and press a button for the rider. Today we have jobs for people to rearticulate box scores. If a computer can do it adequately it should be done by a computer. I don't want to bring back the button pusher and I'm okay with ai authors. But they really shouldn't lie about it
> But they really shouldn’t lie about it If you can’t tell then what’s the problem? If you can what’s the problem? I have bigger problems with everyday lies that already happen that are treated as “normal”. For example, advertising a price cut as if there’s a discount by raising the everyday price and discounting to the previous everyday price, using celebrities/influencers to promote products, paying for product rev…
And these lies are not something that AI can be trusted to reveal, but a journalist can.
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#36Who ratted him out? Or could the readers tell?
More than that, does it matter? What difference does it make, considering that most content created these days is mediocre opinion pieces.
Re: Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal
#37The number of execs that got canned suggests this was not about AI articles.
Was it, rather, about AI Executives?
Cause I BELIEVE in the future.
–Common B. Citizen
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But they really shouldn’t lie about it If you can’t tell then what’s the problem? If you can what’s the problem? I have bigger problems with everyday lies that already happen that are treated as “normal”. For example, advertising a price cut as if there’s a discount by raising the everyday price and discounting to the previous everyday price, using celebrities/influencers to promote products, paying for product rev…
And these lies are not something that AI can be trusted to reveal, but a journalist can.
Ummm… what? Can you point to one major publication that is trying to cover this? Media corporations can control the narrative by controlling who they hire. It’s more expensive but they’ve been doing it for a long time so there’s institutional knowledge. Also, these same companies make their money on advertising so explain to me why you’d trust them to go after their sole remaining revenue stream?
Re: Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal
#39imo, portraying advertisements as articles is worse than AI generated content
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
TFA answers this in paragraphs 3-4.
Quoted: > The release did not mention the AI scandal from November, which was spurred by an investigative report published by the science and technology news publication Futurism. Earlier this year, a round of layoffs hit the magazine shortly after the Arena Group’s CEO and chairman, Ross Levinsohn, announced the company’s incorporation of AI. Sports Illustrated accused of publishing articles written by AI Read more…
Amusingly, GamePRO did this way back when, but differently.
Essentially, the 'Reviewer' was a caricature for the genre (e.x. the fighting game Reviewer was 'slasher quan' or somesuch) however one could tell from the writing style it was not just one person doing the writing.
Otoh at least they tried to play it straight?