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No 'real' AI/ML journalism is claimed in the article; the meat and potatoes of the article are provided by Mr. Robert McKenzie, editor of BBC News Labs. It is p
by johnnycab 7y ago
No 'real' AI/ML journalism is claimed in the article; the meat and potatoes of the article are provided by Mr. Robert McKenzie, editor of BBC News Labs. It is probably best to direct your vitriol towards the right source.
"None of the stories have any quotations in, none of them have any analysis of what happened or what the significance is. It is purely a written version of what has happened based on the data. So that's quite a big downside in terms of quality of journalism."
However, Mr McKenzie said the BBC was still in the "very early stages of understanding what audiences want from the technology".
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- hanoz 7y agoIt's hardly vitriol. I just thought that the headline and opening paragraphs ("a news story for every constituency... all written by a computer", "the BBC's biggest test of machine-generated journalism so far", "Each of nearly 700 articles... was checked by a human editor") did hint at an AI element and more variety of composition in the articles than I found there to be.
- lonelappde 7y agoThe only person who put "I" in it was you.
- treebeard901 7y ago> "None of the stories have any quotations in, none of them have any analysis of what happened or what the significance is. It is purely a written version of what has happened based on the data. So that's quite a big downside in terms of quality of journalism." With the way news works today, are we sure this is really a downside?