Why are we doing this?
We wanted to find out how different, if at all, a preview article written by a human writer would be from one written by artificial intelligence. The Daily Mississippian writer was simply tasked with writing a preview for this weekend’s Ole Miss/Arkansas football game, while The DM’s sports editor generated an article employing AI.
We prompted Bard, which is Google’s AI chatbot, with the following statement: Generate a preview article (about 500 words long) for the Ole Miss versus Arkansas college football game this weekend.
From our experiment, we discovered that AI, in general, may not be the best tool to generate factual, real-time and cohesive articles.