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> "After we reached out with questions to the magazine's publisher, The Arena Group, all the AI-generated authors disappeared from Sports Illustrated's site without explanation. Our questions received no response."

What is The Arena Group? (https://thearenagroup.net/). It's a publicly traded company for one. (Stock price: AREN (NYSEAMERICAN) $2.76 -0.03 (-1.08%))

> "The Arena Group is an innovative technology platform and media company with a proven cutting-edge playbook that transforms media brands. We aggregate content across a diverse portfolio of over 265 brands, reaching over 100 million users monthly."

- "Our Brands": https://thearenagroup.net/our-brands/

So, basically, an entity that has people's eyeballs, content doesn't matter that much does it? But brand does (SI has notoriety for millions of people). I'm guessing ads are the main business here, therefore content generation in all ways that get people's attention is the goal (for cheap).

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>I'm guessing ads are the main business here, therefore content generation in all ways that get people's attention is the goal (for cheap).

Yep. Last week they added a pop up requesting to disable ad blockers. You can decline and still read but it will pop up again on the next article.