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Replacing Sports Bloggers With an Algorithm
tesmar tips a report up at TechCrunch that begins "Here come the robo sports journalists. While people in the media biz worry about content mills like Demand Media and Associated Content spitting out endless SEO-targeted articles written by low-paid Internet writers, at least those articles are still written by humans. We may no longer need the humans, at least for data-driven stories. A startup in North Carolina, StatSheet, today is launching a remarkable network of 345 sports sites, one dedicated to each Division 1 college basketball team in the US. For instance, there is a site for the Michigan State Spartans, North Carolina Tar Heels, and Ohio Buckeyes. Every story on each site was written by a robot, or to put it more precisely, by StatSheet's content algorithms. 'The posts are completely auto-generated,' says founder Robbie Allen. 'The only human involvement is with creating the algorithms that generate the posts.'"
This post was written by a robot.
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They aren't. They're using it as a replacement for the output of sportswriters.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
Hard to read? Disjointed? Mentally uncomfortable? Sounds like it could fit right in here on /. ;-)
Now I just need to find a robot to read all these sports blogs to free up time for things I want to do.
Boom Goes the Dynamite!
Now we need a sports fan algorithm to rid ourselves of all these needless sports fans in the world and replace them with something more worth the resources.
Hard to read? Disjointed? Mentally uncomfortable? Sounds like it could fit right in here on /. ;-)
A clever attempt, RoboWrongSizeGlass, but not clever enough! Trying to point the finger at humans while sneaking in another templated contribution! Haha! Your plans will never work! :P
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.
This is the DJ 3000. It plays CDs automatically, and it has three distinct varieties of inane chatter:
- Hey hey -- how about that weather out there?
- Woah, that was the caller from hell.
- Well, hot dog -- we have a weiner.
- Those clowns in congress did it again -- what a bunch of clowns.
How does it keep up with the news like that?
I am going to guess that there will not be any humans involved in reading the output either.
At least we know that Slashdot isn't generated by robots. A robot wouldn't make the idiotic mistakes that the current human (for want of a better word) editors do. E.g. "one dedicated to each Division 1 college basketball tam in the US." Robots don't suffer from dyslexia, and aren't too lazy to use a spell check.
"The RoboSportReporter is broken again. It looks and smells like someone poured a beer into him."
They were just trying to make him more realistic.
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Tell that to a phone book or other assemblage of facts.
I tried, but the phone book wouldn't listen to me.
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