USA Today's publisher had to update all of the sports posts its AI reporter botched

A week after being outed for stealthily using AI to produce high school sports reports and publicly "pausing" the project, mega-publisher Gannett has reportedly had to recheck each and every post the AI had written. Did we really learn nothing from CNET's ignoble AI escapades in January? Gannett operates a number of regional and national publications including USA Today, The Arizona Republic and The Detroit Free Press. The company devised its "Lede AI" as a means of automating the droll work of summarizing the box scores of local high school sports leagues -- a task the AI proved wholly incapable of. The Hardin County Tigers defeated the Memphis Business Execs 48-12 in a Tennessee high school football game on Friday.