(Full disclosure: I briefly hosted a television show for Sports Illustrated a few years back that no one watched.)
But the only difference between those sports sites using AI writers and other sports sites using AI writers is that people actually used to enjoy Sports Illustrated and Deadspin; Yahoo, for example, has been contracted with a company called “Automated Insights” to write AI sport stories for years.
Another game I like to play in my downtime is NBA2K, the wildly popular NBA video game.
But in the game, Aldridge is not real; he’s just some pixels synced to audio the real Aldridge recorded years ago.
Sports writers insist, as we fight back against a creeping AI world, that we can always do our jobs better than a robot can.
Persons:
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