Something that's gone unreported: some of the wretched sports hits have evenTo retain a shred of credibility, hitting the pause button certainly seems to have been the right move.
And Gannett isn't the only publisher using AI to cover high school sports. We noticed that Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI efforts, is supplying numerous other local news publishers with the same service. Like at Gannett, the articles display a drab sameness., an Illinois-based paper owned by Gannett rival Lee Enterprises, "helped Franklin South County handle Bloomington North 4-0 on Aug. 30 in Indiana girls high schools soccer action.
Some of these opening quips are followed by a few lines of barely-there commentary. In some cases, this one-line blurb was all the machine wrote. Engrossing stuff, we know, and that's just a taste of Lede AI's journalistic prowess. A lot of teams, apparently, experience mid-game "hibernations" — see