Sports Illustrated An author – and his entire collection of articles – were removed from his website after allegations of AI plagiarism.
Last week, sports news site sportico published an article The prediction market offers a basic analysis of parlay bets made through Kalshi. Two days later, on May 15, Sports Illustrated Published an article – titled “Who is really winning on Kalshi Parley according to statistics” – who regurgitated the same figures, without attributing the analysis sporticoAs would be the normal and moral thing to do.
Sports Illustrated The piece only mentioned other sports outlets when repeating the given quote. sportico For a related article published in 2025 – a citation sporticoApparently, he recalled in his recent piece.
sportico Editor Dan Bernstein, who penned the original piece, moved to x on sunday To accuse Sports Illustrated Regarding plagiarism, the post suggests that AI may have been used to produce the excerpt in question.
“husk of Sports Illustrated “The brand is stealing entire stories from people without credit, seemingly using AI,” Bernstein wrote. “It becomes very obvious when it’s just you who is stealing the data you report!”
Shortly after Bernstein’s allegations became public, Sports Illustrated The article in question, which was attributed to an author named Parker Lovrich, was removed. Profiles associated with Lavrich immediately disappeared from LinkedIn and X. Lavrich did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After the beginning of this story, Sports Illustrated The removed content was said to have been produced by an “independent publisher”.
“Parker Lovrich is a real reporter,” it says. statement to terrible announcement. “The predictions market on the SI site is managed by an independent publisher, which is expected to comply with Sports IllustratedEditorial guidelines. Sports Illustrated Became aware of the violation of those guidelines regarding the use of AI and immediately took internal steps to address the violation, including severing ties with the publisher.
Loverich’s complete profile – along with all their articles – cleared Sports IllustratedWebsite of.
talking to futurismBernstein shared that it was “disappointing” to see his work stolen by a highly trafficked brand Sports Illustrated.
Bernstein said, “If someone was stealing my work and no one was actually looking at it, it would be semi-annoying.” “But the idea of a plagiarized version showing up in Google instead of my own version, or someone looking at a plagiarized version and then citing the plagiarized version instead of me, it’s kind of disappointing.”
The company’s hasty move to eliminate a perfect writer and his backlog Sports IllustratedThe site is significant given the iconic sports brand’s not-so-distant history of AI scandals. Back in 2023, futurism published an investigation revealing this Sports IllustratedAt the time owned by The Arena Group, it published a large number of product review articles headlined by completely fabricated authors with AI-generated profile pictures.
Arena Group said the articles were published Sports IllustratedThe site of a third-party content provider called AdVon Commerce; Former AdVon employees told futurism The company was secretly using AI to generate large amounts of content. When we contacted Arena Group about the content, the entire section Sports Illustrated The site on which the articles were published was immediately removed.
next futurismAccording to reporting, several Arena Group executives, including the company’s then-CEO, were fired. Arena Group soon lost control Sports Illustrated Completely, and the historic brand ended up in Minute Media’s portfolio.
When asked about Minute Media’s hasty response to digging into the author’s history without a formal response to the plagiarism accusation, Bernstein said that “it would be nice” if the brand owner “took some kind of responsibility.”
“Just because this account was deleted, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s happening somewhere else, or if it’s going to happen again,” Bernstein said. “It feels like this is more of a systemic problem than this one incident.”
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