Gannett papers using AI for high school football

No names of kids mentioned. This will go great

 

How shortsighted.

Sure, you may win the SEO game and get someone to click. But people will remember an article of such shit quality at this, and they'll learn to not click on the Dispatch (or whatever Gannett paper) site for anything, ever.

 

I wonder how much Gannett is paying for ScoreStream. More than they’d pay a stringer to write six grafs?

 

It’s a dying business that is perfectly aware it is dying. They know this sucks and they do not care. This is just scraping the last few nickels off the table from the remaining chumps. It’s strip mining the last few useable chunks of coal before abandoning the wasteland for good.

 

I don't want to like a post that is so negative in its viewpoint. But you state your point very well.

 

There is literally nothing in that article that you couldn't get from looking at the quarter by quarter box score.
One of the commenters said the story has the score wrong as well.

 

So it obviously stinks, but if statistical information is delivered properly isn't this a better solution for sports briefs? There's certainly some kinks that need to be worked out - it would be great if you could program the AI to write at least X amount of players from the winners and losers - but why waste time writing briefs or recaps that barely get noticed when an AI program can write the 2-3 sentences for you.
For hoops, this would save me 6-8 hours a week and get me to bed a whole lot sooner.
Now if you're just replacing HS coverage with this, it's complete garbage.

 

Less than $25 a story, I’m sure.

 

Not for this. In just about every example of this, the only statistic is the score itself. And there have been a couple of them where people have said the score is wrong. Just make this a line score in your agate section. Why waste any time making a brief out of this at all?

I'm not sure this is intended to do anything but make it appear as though someone wrote a story just to get some web hits. Six paragraphs (two of them with the same information) out of a linescore.

Even if I desperately needed to make a brief out of this, it would be three paragraphs, tops. And one of those would be where and who the teams play next week.

 

You could use it as a skelly to form something you can add stats and facts to, but that's all it's worth really.

 

LOL “… in a close encounter of the athletic kind.”

I’ve worked with some hack human reporters who’d write something like that.