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by soligern 1026 days ago
Why would these be identical? New stories everyday, new games played etc.
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> Why would these be identical? New stories everyday, new games played etc.

If the only data you have about a game is the sport, the team names, and the score, there's only so much an AI (or a human!) can do to write an interesting article about it. Once you've read a few dozen of the generated articles, they'll all start sounding the same -- because, aside from the details, they are all the same.

If you want quality articles, you need some more depth in the source data. And, for little-league sports games, that data may just not exist.

Because they're populating a template.

> One article even failed to populate properly, with the text instead featuring a bracketed glimpse at how its opening sentence was supposed to read.

> "The Worthington Christian [[WINNING_TEAM_MASCOT]] defeated the Westerville North [[LOSING_TEAM_MASCOT]] 2-1 in an Ohio boys soccer game on Saturday," reads the butchered intro.