Gannett halts AI-written sports recaps after readers mocked the stories

Gannett has halted the use of Lede AI, an artificial intelligence company, to write high school sports stories for newspapers owned by Gannett due to the AI-generated stories being criticized for their stilted tone and strange phrases.

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