Why bots taking over (some) journalism could be a good thing

Why bots taking over (some) journalism could be a good thing

5 years ago
Anonymous $TjsaxHwAP-

https://www.techradar.com/news/why-bots-taking-over-some-journalism-could-be-a-good-thing

Sometimes it’s easy to be cynical. When I read pieces suggesting that in the future robots will do all the journalism, I wonder: hasn’t that already happened? My news feeds are full of pieces highlighting the funny tweets I saw yesterday, regurgitating press releases and embedding YouTube clips of someone I don’t recognize being 'totally destroyed!' by someone I haven’t heard of. You could probably automate that in an afternoon. 

We’re already used to news aggregation, where algorithms create personalized feeds. Could the next step to be automated writing?