The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) revolution is infiltrating, if not replacing, the human capacity to create, communicate ideas, and tell stories. AGI is the warp-speed process of recycling and reusing data and intellect compiled throughout human history. AGI represents the swan song celebration of human effort. It is a dollar store of facts and resources, and a one-stop shop, allowing for quick, easy, albeit band-aid, solutions to any problem.
Some sports writers may find it difficult to resist the temptation to create entirely AGI-generated content. Algorithms connected to social media allow us to become immediately aware of current sports trends. If one were to enter a prompt into any free AI application readily available for download, it would be interesting to see the accuracy, flow, and depth of content the AGI so quickly responds to.
Let’s say an audience was interested in a loose, subjective debate listing, for example, the greatest soccer players of all time. AGI will provide that list in clearly configured point form or column (whatever your preference) style and offers prose, paragraph structure, and efficiently recycled and reused thought. Of course, those “thoughts” may or may not have come from some other guy.
Plagiarism, as it were, is no longer spoken of in the AGI Matrix. If an aspiring “journalist” wants to attach his/her name onto an AGI piece and have it churned out in seconds, “Have at it, Hoss!”. That quote comes from James Carville, just before he was outdebated by “Frank the Tank” in the classic comedy Old School.
Does AGI signal the end of the road for authenticity and original thought in sports journalism? It is too early in this pivotal time period to say for sure. Experts indicate that there are some tremendous upsides with automated news writing. Data analytics, facts, and statistics gathering have never been more straightforward, and now AGI can quickly reveal these with a single click or keyword.
Craving for facts, even distorted ones, will forever be satisfied with the help of a little AGI. We are now in a time and place where AGI tools can be used and cited for PhD dissertations. Overall, everything is getting easier.
It would be nice if sports fans could continue making personal connections with the deep story-telling lens Peter Gammons (pictured above) provides for baseball, or that Wayne Embry writes for basketball. So far, that is the piece that AGI neglects: the personal connection through nuanced and informed story-telling. Having such an increasingly abundant array of facts available with one click is lovely and convenient.
The lasting satisfaction, however, is authentically attaching one’s name to a piece that is a simple but pure extension of ourselves. By keeping it real, we’re welcoming you into the arena regarding your passion and love of sports. Always keep it real! BTW, my AGI source has Pele at number one. How can we argue with that?
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