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Microsoft is replacing dozens of MSN news production workers with AI

• nana- 6y ago
  Wow
• CM30 6y ago
  I suspect we'll see more of this in future, since a lot of the work journalists/reporters do now can easily be automated away with AI. It's already started happening with stories on sports results, which some outlets have already automated with templates and a data feed. It's probably going to happen with entertainment news too, given how many TV/movie/game/book/music related stories are just rewording press releases or posting trailers/advertisements. And with the kind of tech mentioned in the article, a lot of the BuzzFeed style low effort stories seen on clickbait focused news sites are probably going to go the same way. So yeah, we'll probably end up with a far smaller media industry in the foreseeable future, and one where eventually, everything except big ticket stories are written by machines rather than people.
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• bzb3 6y ago
  Does this mean the marginal cost of journalism is 0? :-)