USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage

Drew First Blood That was fast. The Columbus Dispatch, a newspaper serving the Columbus, Ohio area, has suspended its AI efforts after its AI-powered sports writing bot was caught churning out horrible, robotic articles about local sports, Axios reports. The Dispatch — which is notably owned by USA Today publisher Gannett — only started publishing […]

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