The renowned magazine Sports Illustrated allegedly published articles that were created by artificial intelligence-generated authors posing as humans, Futurism reported Monday.
An author by the name of Drew Ortiz appears to only exist on the author biography page of Sports Illustrated, according to Futurism. Outside the magazine, Ortiz appeared to have no social media presence or publishing history, and his profile picture looked almost identical to a headshot generated by an AI website.
Oritz’s headshot appears to have been taken from Generated Photos, a website that sells AI-generated pictures, Futurism reported. The description for the profile appears to have been listed under “neutral white young-adult male with short brown hair and blue eyes.”
Two anonymous sources involved in Sports Illustrated content spoke to Futurism and said the content and the author looked AI-generated.