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IIRC that sports journalism was already one of the fields that was quickly being automated even before AI started to be in the news all of the time.
Stuff such as box scores, certain plays, etc can all be automatically pulled various game stats and/or play by play recordings. Those are things that can almost be automated with boilerplate statements and needs minimal human and/or AI work to smooth out the boilerplate into something more cohesive.
I’m curious who actually reads postgame write ups anymore. That content can now be digested in the form of podcasts
Who has time for a podcast?
People who don't like podcasts and/or just want to quickly skim over stuff.
Even postgame recap podcasts will probably be automated to some extent quite soon once you get better text to speech programs.
what is even the point of that? you can go to a website and do text to speech. i thought podcasts were meant to offer insight and opinions. listening to an ai read box scores sounds painfully dull
Which podcasts do you listen to?
My point is that most of the sports writing outside of a few good beat reporters is very generic. You can notice the patterns very quickly for most of the bread and butter articles released by most websites.
A good AI/boilerplate can make it a narrative. Team X went up, then continued to maintain a lead with additional scores until Team Z finally scored. Then....
There are ways to make stuff interesting.
The Associated Press started using AI to publish reports on company earnings in 2014. Using it is not new, but abusing it is.
Tell that to Journatic
As the link you provided explains, Journatic was not AI. Journatic was hiring Filipinos for 35 cents an article and selling the work as being done by local reporters.
Mechanical Turk or actual software isn't the point. They were hiding the fact that they were outsourcing to cheaper labor pools with lower level of accountability behind fake reporter names.
It is the point, you've just decided to make a different point. That's fine, it adds to the conversation, but that isn't what was being talked about. What was being talked about was using AI to write articles. Journatic was not doing that.