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Sports magazine under fire for publishing AI-written articles crediting non-existent authors

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The Sports Illustrated magazine is under fire for carrying articles written using artificial intelligence, crediting authors who do not seem to exist.

The popular magazine said it removed several articles from its website after a report by Futurism accused it of repeatedly publishing articles with fake author names whose profile images were seemingly generated by AI.

One such now-deleted article was credited to the

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