For stories that are basically just regurgitating easily parsable statistics, this is going to become more and more common. The LA Times also has an algorithm t

For stories that are basically just regurgitating easily parsable statistics, this is going to become more and more common. The LA Times also has an algorithm that produces a story every time there's a large enough earthquake reported by the USGS. The byline gives the credit to "Quakebot", although the disclaimer that the article was auto-generated also credits the person who wrote the bot's code