Owner tells Surfer robots, "The amount of useless stuff you guys do is staggering.”
The surf world was rocked to its absolute core, yesterday, when it was revealed that Surfer Magazine had published dangerous lies about beloved five-time world champion Carissa Moore. The disgraced former “Bible of the Sport,” putting false words in Moore’s mouth, stated that she had called for a boycott of the 2024 Paris Olympics due concerns over a new judging tower proposal for Teahupo’o’s famed reef.
Moore suggested no such action whatsoever.
The gold medalist was vigorously defended by newly-minuted hero of professional surfers, BeachGrit, though its artificial intelligence has yet to walk back the claim. The robot, likely, spending all its time trying to figure out how readers were not convinced it was real even though it stated in its biography that it “enjoyed spicy food, strong coffee and live music.”
It best hurry or an unplugging is around the corner. For news was released, yesterday, that Surfer Magazine’s parent company, The Arena Group, has seen its stock crash by nearly 30% in the wake of the scandal.
Unscrupulousness the cause.
The most recent artificial intelligence (AI) controversy has some dire consequences.
According to Sportico, shares in Sports Illustrated’s publisher, The Arena Group, have dropped by 28% after the renowned sports outlet was accused of using AI to generate stories under fabricated bylines.
Per the initial report led by Futurism, Sports Illustrated allegedly “used computer-generated copy to create content such as a volleyball buying guide authored by staffers that don’t exist.”
Dark days, indeed
Two C-Suite Arena Group executives have already been fired and it must be assumed that the machine-generated apology letter to Carissa Moore has been lost in the shuffle.
Manoj Bhargava, the 5-Hour Energy drink owner whose firm recently purchased a controlling stake in The Arena Group, got on a “meandering video call with Arena staff” yesterday, according to Front Office Sports, in order to shore up moral.
“No one is important,” he told staffers, per one source on hand for the presentation. “I am not important. … The amount of useless stuff you guys do is staggering.”
Bhargava certainly a reader of surf journalism.
More as the story develops.
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Breaking News: The Arena Group to acquire online surf click-bait site ‘BeachGrit’
I can think of no one better placed to identify made up surf stories, beach grits calling
It’s interesting because the author of these latest stories does appear to be a real person – a surfer, even – but the stories are most definitely AI. Can you sell your identity now to have fake stories written under your name? Where do I sign up?
@surfAIds
You surf AIDS? Best glove up pal.
And also, as of 6:15pm PT on Dec 7th, this headline is still up. How can that be after a gold medalist and a premier surf journal call it out as false? Is this guy and the entire organization completely clueless? Is their AI not scraping this up? https://www.surfer.com/tren…
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Beach Grit – come for unsubstantiated rumors, leave with the truth
Except that Chas’ headline is not the truth.
Yesterday Chad said they made up a Riss quote three days prior. So around 3 December.
The stock took it on the nose on 28 November.
Never let facts get in the way of a good story about facts.
Let’s agree on the term “alternative facts”
Fact adjacent
Beach Grit— The amount of useless stuff you guys do is staggering.
Culture is passed down from one generation to the next through story telling and the written word. Scared for the future of humanity.
Only just? Look at the Hollywood movies of US high schools in the 1980’s and you could see what was coming. A world of nincompoops.
Fear not for humanity. We’ll be much improved when the bots are making all of our decisions for us. Can’t possibly be more than a couple of decades away, at this rate of technological development.
Some cultures didn’t write and only told stories so their whole existence is based on rumours.
The days when people would talk to each other instead of text.
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Bhargava is a member of the Giving Pledge campaign.[21] In 2015, he pledged to give 99% of his wealth to philanthropic causes.[19] His foundations include the Hans Foundation[1][22] and Rural India Supporting Trust.[23] In 2016, Bhargava told National Geographic that he planned to distribute 10,000 of his stationary, power-generating bikes to rural homes and villages in India.[13]
Looks like 10,000 Indian wives will be getting in good shape soon.
Creates enougb electricity to use a one hundred watt bulb for one hour.
Babe…babe… peddle faster! We’re losing the cricket!
I couldn’t believe that peddling a bike for one hour a day like this guy claims can power a house for twenty four hours, so I looked it up.
A person can create 100 watts of power peddling a bike, unless they are a pro bike racer.
If he really wanted to help out rural India: https://www.smithsonianmag…..