Just checking in on the 1887 Yale baseball team. Amos Alonzo Stagg is the guy wearing the tie and holding a ball #cfb
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![Rather than sending the entire AI-generated translation to a professional, reporters flagged important passages for review by two Russian language academics at the nearby St. Olaf College. For the most part, the AI-generated translations were correct, but the academics found a few errors, including a passage that misrepresented the shooter’s potential motivation.
If it weren’t for the help of AI translation, Scheck says the Tribune would probably have hired a translator to go through the documents from the beginning, slowing down their turnaround time. Instead, the triaged translations informed an initial story on the manifesto the night of the attack and contributed significantly to a profile of the shooter published four days later. Both stories were a part of the coverage that won the Star Tribune a Pulitzer in the Breaking News category.
“AI allowed us to take a first pass on the content and then prioritize what we [might] use,” he said. “We know we have to run the marathon, but AI helped us start at mile marker five instead of at the traditional starting line.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gxruxwrqboiibcwbrvm5bol6/bafkreigft6wgnqabfcoufrdpmcs3bijyufzwzdljiqv5zodxeijs2gsy4y)
