{"id":15364,"date":"2024-01-26T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15364"},"modified":"2024-01-24T00:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T06:14:42","slug":"thats-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/thats-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s the story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the tipoff that <a href=\"https:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/sports\/high-school\/basketball\/girls\/hudson-overwhelms-le-grand-east-marshall\/article_e03218b5-da94-5ede-822a-05e02134221f.html\">this item on the <em>Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier&#8217;s<\/em> website<\/a> wasn&#8217;t written by a reporter? I mean, besides the byline being &#8220;Lede AI Sports Desk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15365\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ledeaihudson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ledeaihudson.jpg 463w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ledeaihudson-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A reporter or even &#8220;person at the sports desk taking phone calls&#8221; would say simply East Marshall, or East Marshall of Le Grand. Only a bot would use the convention depicted here. Notably, the convention used by the state associations is &#8220;East Marshall, Le Grand&#8221;, as seen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ighsau.org\/upl\/downloads\/library\/beds-2324-numerical.pdf\">IGHSAU&#8217;s 2023-24 BEDS list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining two sentences are 1) the date of their last meeting \u2014 <em>without a score<\/em> \u2014 and 2) each team&#8217;s previous opponents \u2014<em> without scores. <\/em>There is no indication where this game was even played (Hudson), unless there&#8217;s an automatic assumption of home team first.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/ledeai.com\/lee-enterprises-uses-lede-ai-to-publish-thousands-of-game-summaries-in-a-dozen-markets\/\">press release from Lede AI last March<\/a> touted its relationship with Lee Enterprises (owner of the <em>Courier<\/em> and other papers). The big payoff, of course, is in search engine optimization. The website Futurism <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/usa-today-newspapers-ai-generated-sports-stories\">wrote at the beginning of the school year<\/a> how multiple media chains across the country are using Lede AI.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how this is an improvement over a catchall page with scores from across the region or state, perhaps something related to multiple links getting hits instead of one. Someone who really wanted to know probably would&#8217;ve gone to the IHSAA&#8217;s or IGHSAU&#8217;s websites \u2014 or would have until recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gobound.com\/ia\/ighsau\/girlsbasketball\/2023-24\/scoressimple?currentDate=2024-01-20&amp;date=prev&amp;level=varsity\">because that part has been outsourced too.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the tipoff that this item on the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier&#8217;s website wasn&#8217;t written by a reporter? I mean, besides the byline being &#8220;Lede AI Sports Desk.&#8221; A reporter or even &#8220;person at the sports desk taking phone calls&#8221; would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/thats-the-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15369,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions\/15369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}