The Arena Group, publisher of Sports Illustrated, has fired the magazine's CEO not long after it was revealed Sports Illustrated had published articles written by fake authors with AI-generated headshots and biographies. The Arena Group's board announced on Monday that CEO Ross Levinsohn had his employment terminated, with Manoj Bhargava named as interim chief executive. The board said it followed a meeting on actions to "improve the operational efficiency and revenue of the company". The release did not mention the AI scandal from November, which was spurred by an investigative report published by the science and technology news publication Futurism. Among fake profiles uncovered by Futurism was that of purported author "Sora Tanaka" which claims she is a product reviewer. The page said: "Sora has always been a fitness guru, and loves to try different foods and drinks.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The parent company of Sports Illustrated is denying accusations that the popular magazine had published articles attributed to fake author profiles using fabricated bios and AI-generated photos after a report accused the outlet of doing so, including allegations that some of the content was also AI-generated. A report from Futurism published Monday featured several screenshots from the Sports Illustrated website that appeared to show the fabricated author profiles with profile pictures that also appeared to link back to a website that sells AI-generated headshots. "There's a lot," one source told the outlet of the fake authors.

Social media users hurled criticism at Microsoft this week for what many thought was an AI-generated obituary for NBA player Brandon Hunter on its website MSN. The controversy began after the obituary -- which had a headline that read "Brandon Hunter useless at 42" written by "Editor" -- appeared on the Microsoft-owned platform after Hunter's death on Tuesday. The obituary goes on to refer to the former Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic player having been "handed away on the age of 42" and claimed he "performed in 67 video games over two seasons and achieved a career-high of 17 factors in a recreation in opposition to the Milwaukee Bucks in 2004." The post appeared to follow a similar format to a story on TMZ Sports, Futurism noted, "albeit with altered punctuation and a use of synonyms so liberal that the result is essentially incomprehensible." You can compare both the obituary containing the error and the TMZ Sports story here.

ChatGPT has proven it can help students with their homework, but now it is helping teachers create those very courses, a computer science professor told Fox News. A scientific journal was forced to retract a paper it published last month after it was discovered the authors used the artificial intelligence application ChatGPT to write it. The paper, published Aug. 9 in the journal Physica Scripta, was an attempt to uncover new solutions to a complicated math equation, but included the phrase "Regenerate response" on the third page -- something one eagle-eyed reader recognized was the phrase of a button on ChatGPT, according to a report from Nature. The authors of the paper have since acknowledged they used ChatGPT to help write the manuscript, something that wasn't caught during two months of peer review after the paper was submitted in May. The revelation led the U.K.-based publisher to retract the paper because the authors did not disclose their use of the AI app when they submitted it.

Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble has the latest on fears the technology will spiral out of control on "Special Report." Artificial intelligence can't bring back the dead, but it may be able to simulate speaking to a lost loved one in an effort to help humans through the grieving process. The high-tech revamp of the traditional seance comes amid the wild growth of large language models, a form of AI that is trained on copious amounts of text. ChatGPT's release year has sparked discussion on how far the tech can go as the chatbot mimics human conversation and answers prompts from humans. Jarren Rocks, product designer and manager at the Los Angeles-based software development company AE Studio, is working on a program called Seance AI, which will allow people to talk with a chatbot that mimics their dead loved ones.

After getting caught using an algorithm to write dozens of articles, the tech publication CNET has apologized (sorta) but wants everybody to know that it definitely has no intention of calling it quits on AI journalism. Yes, roughly two weeks ago Futurism reported that CNET had been using an in-house artificial intelligence program to pen droves of financial explainers. The articles--some 78 in total--were published over the course of two months under the bylines "CNET Money Staff" or "CNET Money," and weren't directly attributed to a non-human writer. Last week, after an online uproar over Futurism's findings, CNET and its parent company, media firm Red Ventures, announced that it would be temporarily pressing "pause" on the AI editorials. It would appear that this "pause" isn't going to last long, however.

CNET has issued corrections for over half of the AI-written articles the outlet recently attributed to its CNET Money team. Following an internal audit after it was first notified of an AI-written article with substantial errors, CNET Editor-in-Chief Connie Guglielmo says the publication identified additional stories that required correction. She claims a "small number" needed "substantial correction," while others had "minor issues" that saw CNET fix things like incomplete company names and language the outlet deemed was vague. In all, of the 77 articles the publication now says were written as part of a trial to test an "internally designed AI engine," 41 feature corrections. As The Verge points out, some articles feature corrections that note CNET "replaced phrases that were not entirely original."

If you visit any of CNET's AI-written articles, you'll now see an editor's note at the top that says: "We are currently reviewing this story for accuracy. If we find errors, we will update and issue corrections." The publication has added the note after being notified of major errors in at least one of the machine-written financial explainers it had published. If you'll recall, CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo recently admitted that the publication had put out around 75 articles about basic financial topics since November last year. Guglielmo said the website decided to do an experiment to see if AI can truly be used in newsrooms and other information-based services in the coming months and years.

As children growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, the brothers were obsessed with science fiction and futurism. "Our younger selves definitely imagined that by now it would be like 2001: A Space Odyssey," Novella says in Episode 526 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "There's going to be permanent space stations in space, there's going to be an infrastructure between here and the moon, a lunar base. All that stuff, we took it for granted." The next few decades showed that futurism is harder than it looks.

Artificial intelligence researchers are doubling down on the concept that we will see artificial general intelligence (AGI) -- that's AI …