local sports news coverage and AI

I saw an article about a game review written by AI that didn’t mention any of the stars of the game.

My daughter works. for a large, prestigious, national law firm. The lawyers have been trained on how to use AI. She said used properly it’s a valuable tool that saves a lot of time. But she added you have to be careful. A lawyer somewhere got in a lot of trouble for citing a a trial in court for precedent that wasn’t real.

I am generally leery of combining technology and kid sports, and I've loved seeing the local newspaper guy at games and reading the (rare) bits of coverage. But I see huge promise from this. Generative AI can enable a baseline of coverage for ALL sports. Not just the big games and big sports or local hero teams. Remember those Gamechanger "game summaries" -- that's all AI.

What would disappoint me is if the use of AI stopped with basic summaries/articles. Right now I'm sure someone is working on tech to bring in photos, video, stats and associate that all to game-summary content, and that could be pretty rich. Especially for sports/teams/populations that get ignored due to lack of "media market."

Baseball is going to be massively impacted by AI. All of the investment in collecting data makes baseball a sitting duck for AI. Like any new technology, we're talking about Generative AI through the lens of the old way of doing things (a better way to write text articles), but it's going to hit differently. If I knew how I'd be rich lol.

I am a newspaper owner who got laid off by Gannett five years ago. Before I went, I laid off the entire staff. It was a fun few weeks. My husband and I then started an online paper in our community and then bought the Gannett weekly that let me go. So I completely get why they tried the AI thing.

At this point, though, I think there is a great place for AI in the background of helping us organize our work, compile stats and maybe even for editing by offering ideas to smooth things out, but honestly, I have no intention of using AI to actually create content at this point. Honestly, I'm not sure why Gannett would even post those stories.

Thanks!  I didn't know of your involvement with that company, but appreciate your insight.