Sports Illustrated deletes writer profile, clears out prediction market vertical, following AI plagiarism accusations
Credit: Tuscaloosa News, SI. com After a writer was accused of using AI to plagiarize a Sportico article about prediction market Kalshi, Sports Illustrated deleted the writer’s profile from its site and appears to have cleared out recent content from its prediction market vertical. On May 13, Dan Bernstein and Lev Akabas wrote on Sportico about how users have lost more than $100 million placing parlay bets from Kalshi’s retail app and website in 2026 so far.
On May 15, Parker Loverich wrote, “ Who is really winning on Kalshi parlays according to the data, ” which, as noted by Futurism , essentially regurgitated the same information and analysis as the Sportico article but failed to offer any attribution. The article did mention Sportico when sharing a quote from a piece written a year earlier, which was also linked in the more recent Sportico piece. On May 17, Bernstein called out Sports Illustrated on X, accusing the company of “stealing entire stories from people without credit, seemingly using AI.
” “This becomes very obvious when it’s stealing data only you’ve reported! ” he added. The husk of the Sports Illustrated brand is stealing entire stories from people without credit, seemingly using AI.
This becomes very obvious when it’s stealing data only you’ve reported! Even copied my request for comment pic. twitter.
com/LdPsudHijZ — Dan Bernstein (@dan_bernstein_) May 18, 2026 At some point in the 90 minutes after being called out, Sports Illustrated seemingly took down the offending article . Parker Loverich’s profile on SI. com was also deleted , and at some point afterward, Loverich took down his X account and LinkedIn profile .