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Google Funds A Team Of Robot Journalists (theguardian.com)
Darren Sharp brings news about the arrival of robot journalists. The Guardian reports:
Robots will help a national news agency to create up to 30,000 local news stories a month, with the help of human journalists and funded by a Google grant. The Press Association has won a €706,000 ($800,779 or £621,000) grant to run a news service with computers writing localised news stories. The national news agency, which supplies copy to news outlets in the U.K. and Ireland, has teamed up with data-driven news start-up Urbs Media for the project, which aims to create "a stream of compelling local stories for hundreds of media outlets"... PA's editor-in-chief, Peter Clifton, said journalists will still be involved in spotting and creating stories and will use artificial intelligence to increase the amount of content. He said: "Skilled human journalists will still be vital in the process, but Radar [the Reporters And Data And Robots project] allows us to harness artificial intelligence to scale up to a volume of local stories that would be impossible to provide manually."
Journalists will create "detailed story templates" for articles about crime, health, and employment, for example, then use natural language software to create multiple versions to "scale up the mass localization."
They already have this, I know because I read Google News.
by mega corps. There's no useful muck racking and nothing that anybody in the working class would be interested in. The only thing left is comics from the 70s and sports stats. And I can get those on my phone. Still, I suppose if you automate it then it costs so little to produce you can make some money off ad revenue from folks in their 50s. I'll go back to the BBC, Al Jazeerez and some of the youtube channels out there that report on the last round of leaked documents and the evil things my senator's are up to.
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Robots don't even need to flunk calculus, get thrown out of the english department and transfer to J school.
"journalist" only by the standards of Fox News, CNN, and Disney
journalists will still be involved in spotting and creating stories and will use artificial intelligence to increase the amount of content.
And then users will employ another AI to filter out the dross and compress these stories back down to just the salient facts.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
Death to CNN! Long live the new flesh!
Guess I'll stick with twitter, the bots are only going to rehash social feeds anyway. I refuse to read regurgitated news for the similar reasons I refuse to eat sewage burgers.
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The thing is the source of the news is actual real news outlets on line I am guessing and the bots just copy it. Lets face it the only way the bots can know what is news is by copying it. Surly this has to be immoral if not illegal.
I imagine From google press to the local news source: We just stole your news your readers and you owe us for advertising posted on the news we stole and republished under our own brand.
When they put the local news outlets (who are paying the reporters) out of business we get news taken off facebook and twitter I guess, with the disclaiming. "Some or all of the local news may not be local due to localisation errors or relevant or factual or news."
More misuse of the term 'AI'. It's just some piece of software that, given a template, creates some half-assed news story, that probably won't even be readable without editing. Not impressed.
Google's SJW robot can find news about inequality 10 times faster than meat-based SJWs.
The catch here is that you can tell the same story in different ways to different readers.
The good news is that in the US any article created entirely by AI will be copyright free. Copyright law is quite explicit that only humans can own a copyright, not a machine or non-human.
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Human? The journalists at CNN already seem like they've been programmed by the DNC.
Oh come on now. Just because one of their employees leaked debate questions to Hillary Clinton doesn't mean anything, it was just a buffer overflow error.
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It won't take them long to start inventing stories that make the advertisers look good and others look bad. No integrity left in Google so Fuck you and all that your crap company now stands for.
This is all a #FakeNews method of flooding the internet with anti-Trump stuff. Bet you CNN has a stake in this method!
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As long as algorithms like this are NOT used, then we could POSSIBLY get more accurate reporting of facts than we do now from MOST MSM outlets.
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As if it wasn't bad enough that news is increasingly being displaced by PR, Google are now trying to make churnalism more efficient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism Capitalism and news just don't mix. We need new ways to do real, independent news, e.g. DemocracyNow! and TheRealNews.