To the reader, it isn't. To the magazine, it's the difference between paying a human to write valueless tripe, and having the editors generate it themselves with between 5 and 10 minutes work. When you're 'talent' is indistinguishable from a random number seed and a prediction engine, you don't have any.
Interview people, research facts, uncover news. You can't be replaced by a machine being fed what to say if you're not ALSO doing that already.
Add in AI images and we don't even need a swimsuit edition. Heck, we can place the actual athlete's image into an image creator and have him doing anything we want.
But if we can do that, why do we need sports illustrated?
To the reader, it isn't. To the magazine, it's the difference between paying a human to write valueless tripe, and having the editors generate it themselves with between 5 and 10 minutes work. When you're 'talent' is indistinguishable from a random number seed and a prediction engine, you don't have any.
Interview people, research facts, uncover news. You can't be replaced by a machine being fed what to say if you're not ALSO doing that already.
The can't gay trap with Ai, yet
Add in AI images and we don't even need a swimsuit edition. Heck, we can place the actual athlete's image into an image creator and have him doing anything we want.
But if we can do that, why do we need sports illustrated?
Said swimsuit issue would probably be a lot hotter and more aesthetic than what they use now.
A roast potato recipe could have hotter shots right now.
Really, the only difference is replacing overly verbose wanking around with incredibly odd grammar and word choices.