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Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI
- intended 6y agoI bet that This will come under the “what could possibly go wrong.” In a few years time.
- Xoltus 6y agoMaybe Microsoft hires Tay[1] as one of their new AI journalists. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
- osobo 6y agoI just see a bunch of portal editors seeing fired. A guy picking through blurbs to post on a channel is not a journalist. Basically MS starts doing what everybody else has been doing all along: curation by algorithm.