Robots Are Writing the News and Nobody’s Talking About It

Activist Post ^ | Elias Marat

[Jeff Chandler]

Are they . . . Russian bots?

[Jeff Chandler]

[House Atreides]

Well, maybe this is a partial explanation of the spreading bad grammar and strange language constructions seen in modern “journalism”.

[Windflier]

Well, maybe this is a partial explanation of the spreading bad grammar and strange language constructions seen in modern “journalism”.

I'll bet it's a big contributor, but the public schools are still the number one culprit.

[RoosterRedux]

The more robots write the news (actually, not write, but gather using algorithms), the demand for good commentary increases dramatically.

Hence, the demand for Free Republic increases dramatically.

Keep it up guys and gals. What you do here is important to our republic.

[rawcatslyentist]

Makes sense.

Robots write, NPCs consume.

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Now back to everybody loves Hypnotoad!

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

no one is watching or reading, it doesn’t matter in the end

garbage in, garbage out

[Leep]

Omit key facts
Add unrelated oppinion
Sight imaginary sources
Blame Trump

Its so easy even a non-robot could do it!

[LostPassword]

Too bad it’s robots. Demand for a wall would shoot to 90+% if it was South Americans taking media jobs.

[DrPretorius]

“Is it just journalists or could it also be Hollywood script writers too?”

Of course. And the same thing has already happened in the field of science and technical writing. In this case, though, the computer generated papers were replete with errors, like junk science supporting global warming.

https://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763

[seowulf]

The “Learn to Code” meme becomes especially ironic?

AI should have no problem learning to code.

Why bother teaching journalists how to do it?

[pepsi_junkie]

[Cyclone59]

most “news” articles are just the retyping of tweets. Some go as far as including the screen shot of the tweet and then just re-type the tweet. THAT’S NOT REPORTING!

[Sirius Lee]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords, and look forward to news that is free of grammatical errors.

[I want the USA back]

Incompetent headline. It is AI, not robots, and they are writing 1/3 of the nyt articles. Not what the headline says.

Information that is presented in a consistent form, concerning a limited subset of one subject, lends itself to automation. No surprise there.

[Bender2]

You have to excuse Robbie... he's running low on Lone Star but I'll have him filled back up to the brim shortly--

[FreedBird]

Something is definitely wrong with so called reporters. They do not understand their subject matter.

[subterfuge]

Is the article about George Will?

[trisham]

Creepy.