Congratulations Futurism for being named a Digiday Media Awards finalist for Editorial Team of the Year! Way to go foster kamer., @jon_christian, Victor Tangermann, Noor Al-Sibai, and Maggie Harrison Dupré.

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Had a funny and weird time figuring out what the deal was with an AI priest FKA 'Father Justin'...and when I went to chat to it again this morning, it had been defrocked.

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Extremely honored to be named a finalist in the S.I. Newhouse School's 2024 Mirror Awards for my story about AI-generated writers at Sports Illustrated. Massive thanks to everyone at Futurism -- in general, just feeling very grateful!

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the gall. new by Maggie Harrison Dupré
'Google is trying to have it both ways: modifying its algorithms to suppress AI sludge while actively supporting attempts to create vastly more of it.'
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An absolutely wild revelation on Futurism today: Google appears to have partnered with none other than AdVon, the company behind…Sports Illustrated’s AI scandal. futurism.com/google-advon-p…

New: Boston University administrators recommended that faculty members use generative AI tools in classrooms due to the BUGWU-UAW strike, in an email seen by The Daily Beast.

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killer report from Frank for Futurism -- amazon's kindles are displaying tons of ads for AI-generated 'books'

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From last night's Semafor media newsletter: Investing dot com is publishing AI-generated stories that bear an extremely strong resemblance to stories published just an hour or two earlier by other competitors.

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what an absolute saga. new by Maggie Harrison Dupré
Sports Illustrated Publisher Fires CEO After AI Scandal
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WELP. Following Futurism's reporting on Sports Illustrated's use of AI — and the subsequent fallout — as of 4:30PM today, Ross Levinsohn is OUT as CEO of The Arena Group. He will be replaced by The Five-Hour Energy Guy. futurism.com/sports-illustr…

Parent company of Sports Ilustrated fires chief executive after AI scandal. Futurism reporting blew the whistle.

Those who remember Ross Levinsohn from tronc/tribune/LAT days remember his push for “gravitas with scale” that foreshadowed all this (link in subsequent tweet)

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Sports Illustrated owner The Arena Group has let go of two top execs, COO Andrew Kraft and President Rob Barrett, following its fake AI author scandal. We're told that CEO Ross Levinsohn is still in. From Futurism

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Have you heard about these Sports Illustrated AI stories? I spoke to the Futurism journalist Maggie Harrison Dupré who broke the story and former SI columnist Rick Reilly who wants you to know that he's really real! CNN

According to a report from Futurism, Sports Illustrated has been publishing AI-generated product reviews.

Maggie Harrison Dupré — who broke the story — joins the podcast.

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What happened when SI met AI?

@Futurism reports that Sports Illustrated posted fake bylines over stories that in some cases were generated by artificial intelligence.

My conversation with Mary Louise Kelly coming up... at 4.39/6.39p ET.

Fantastic having Maggie Harrison Dupré on Off The Ball to talk about her sensational story about Sports Illustrated for Futurism.

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And listen back to the OTB interview here ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-…

Beyond proud of my brilliant coworker Maggie Harrison Dupré, whose dogged pursuit of AI authors across the web has netted Futurism some major media mentions this week.

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Editor-in-Chief of Futurism here. Arena repeatedly didn't respond to requests for comment. They have yet to demonstrate human work. The entire 'investigation' is 'we asked our third-party provider' and not 'we got proof from our third-party provider.' Okay!