It’s the last SNL of 2023, former cast MVP Kate McKinnon is hosting, and that’s just means the cold open had to dive into Rudy Giuliani‘s latest legal face plant – which is exactly what the Lorne Michaels produced show sadly didn’t do.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After Sports Illustrated was called out for publishing articles from apparently nonexistent authors with AI-generated headshots, the company that operates SI said the content in question came from a third party that had provided assurances those were written by humans. The Arena Group, which publishes Sports Illustrated, said it has ended its partnership with AdVon Commerce, the company that supplied the posts.
Reps for AdVon Commerce did not respond to a request for comment. Arena Group’s statement came after a piece published Monday by Futurism provided evidence that the photos of several authors listed on Sports Illustrated’s website were available for purchase on a website that sells AI-generated headshots.
For example, the bio of a writer on SI’s site named “Drew Ortiz” said that “Nowadays, there is rarely a weekend that goes by where Drew isn’t out camping, hiking, or just back on his parents’ farm.” The photo of “Drew Ortiz” as it appeared on the Sports Illustrated site was available on an AI-generated image website with the description “neutral white young-adult male with short brown hair and blue eyes,” per the Futurism report. According to the Futurism piece, after it contacted Arena Group for comment, the bios of the fake writers disappeared.
Articles with the allegedly AI-generated writers’ bylines now include a disclaimer that reads, “This content is created by a 3rd party” and “The Sports Illustrated editorial staff are not involved in the creation of this content.” A spokesperson for Arena Group said in a statement to Variety, “The articles in question were product reviews and were licensed content from an external, third-party company, AdVon Commerce. A number of AdVon’s
.It’s the last SNL of 2023, former cast MVP Kate McKinnon is hosting, and that’s just means the cold open had to dive into Rudy Giuliani‘s latest legal face plant – which is exactly what the Lorne Michaels produced show sadly didn’t do.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The show is over for Showtime as a standalone brand. As of Jan. 8, 2024, Paramount Global will rebrand the linear Showtime cable network as Paramount+ With Showtime — the same name as the company’s top-tier streaming package.
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Earlier today, a lengthy piece on the web site Futurism began causing a stir among journalists at one of America’s most venerated media institutions. The piece alleged that stories on the Sports Illustrated web site “were churned out using AI,” and that the contributor profiles on many of them were also AI-generated, right down to the author photos, which Futurism’s researchers claim they found on sites selling AI-generated images.
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