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This should be the link at the top. The BBC article doesn't even have a picture of the remnants of the stakes!

by cfn 5y ago

mattowen_uk 5y ago
BBC News articles are mostly now written by AI pulling from other newsfeeds. It's only really good enough for the 80% who don't actually care about news, information, or actually learning anything.
- dzdt 5y ago
  Source? If a major respected journalism outfit was using AI to generate stories I think that would be news itself, and I haven't heard it, outside of the corner-case of within-seconds earthquake reporting.
  - mattowen_uk 5y ago
    - https://wan-ifra.org/2021/06/how-bbc-news-labs-uses-ai-powered-content-automation-to-engage-young-audiences/ https://wan-ifra.org/2021/06/how-bbc-news-labs-uses-ai-power... - https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2017/10/19/bbc-ai-improve-content/ https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2017/10/19/bbc-ai-im... - https://techhq.com/2019/12/machines-wrote-the-bbcs-uk-election-results-articles/ https://techhq.com/2019/12/machines-wrote-the-bbcs-uk-electi...
    - kspacewalk2 5y ago
      None of this of course even remotely addresses the false (and, to any tech incined person who reads the BBC and has seen the state of AI-generated content) patently absurd claim you made that BBC News articles are "now mostly written by AI".
      - mattowen_uk 5y ago
        Yeah maybe I was hyperbolic in my wording, but in my defense, most of the articles DO read like an AI hacked them together.
        quesera 5y ago
        > BBC News articles are mostly now written by AI pulling from other newsfeeds. ...bold assertion challenged... > Yeah maybe I was hyperbolic in my wording, but in my defense, most of the articles DO read like an AI hacked them together. That's really not OK. Your first comment was not written as an opinion or speculation.
        mattowen_uk 5y ago
        Since when are you the comment police ? ;)
        quesera 5y ago
        We are all the comment police. ;) Unsubstantiated accusations deserve to be called out. Sometimes downvoting is not enough.
  - ceejayoz 5y ago
    https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ap-expands-relationship-with-data-skrive-as-preferred-automation-platform-for-sports-gambling-content-300881401.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ap-expands-relation... > The Associated Press has selected Data Skrive as its preferred platform for automated sports and gambling content. The increased breadth of content provides AP customers more inventory of local-focused sports and gambling news. The AP expects the expansion of content to help both small and large publishers attract new subscribers and grow audience. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial-intelligence-journalism-robots.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial... > Roughly a third of the content published by Bloomberg News uses some form of automated technology. The system used by the company, Cyborg, is able to assist reporters in churning out thousands of articles on company earnings reports each quarter. > The program can dissect a financial report the moment it appears and spit out an immediate news story that includes the most pertinent facts and figures. And unlike business reporters, who find working on that kind of thing a snooze, it does so without complaint. > In addition to covering company earnings for Bloomberg, robot reporters have been prolific producers of articles on minor league baseball for The Associated Press, high school football for The Washington Post and earthquakes for The Los Angeles Times. > Last week, The Guardian’s Australia edition published its first machine-assisted article, an account of annual political donations to the country’s political parties. And Forbes recently announced that it was testing a tool called Bertie to provide reporters with rough drafts and story templates. It's all over the place now.
    - 542458 5y ago
      From what I’ve seen of the tech, “assist” is the operant word here. It’s more like those article summary bots or a template fill-in-the-blank rather than something like GPT-2 that’s generating entirely novel phrases. A human still has to go in and make the text flow, correct things that don’t make sense, add good hooks, and (of course) an enticing title. The text isn’t “mostly written” by a bot - it’s still text that a human wrote, although it may have been summarized or had details populated by a bot.
      - ceejayoz 5y ago

This should be the link at the top. The BBC article doesn't even have a picture of the remnants of the stakes!

by cfn 5y ago

This should be the link at the top. The BBC article doesn't even have a picture of the remnants of the stakes!

BBC News articles are mostly now written by AI pulling from other newsfeeds. It's only really good enough for the 80% who don't actually care about news, information, or actually learning anything.

dzdt 5y ago
Source? If a major respected journalism outfit was using AI to generate stories I think that would be news itself, and I haven't heard it, outside of the corner-case of within-seconds earthquake reporting.
- mattowen_uk 5y ago
  - https://wan-ifra.org/2021/06/how-bbc-news-labs-uses-ai-powered-content-automation-to-engage-young-audiences/ https://wan-ifra.org/2021/06/how-bbc-news-labs-uses-ai-power... - https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2017/10/19/bbc-ai-improve-content/ https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2017/10/19/bbc-ai-im... - https://techhq.com/2019/12/machines-wrote-the-bbcs-uk-election-results-articles/ https://techhq.com/2019/12/machines-wrote-the-bbcs-uk-electi...
  - kspacewalk2 5y ago
    None of this of course even remotely addresses the false (and, to any tech incined person who reads the BBC and has seen the state of AI-generated content) patently absurd claim you made that BBC News articles are "now mostly written by AI".
    - mattowen_uk 5y ago
      Yeah maybe I was hyperbolic in my wording, but in my defense, most of the articles DO read like an AI hacked them together.
      - quesera 5y ago
        > BBC News articles are mostly now written by AI pulling from other newsfeeds. ...bold assertion challenged... > Yeah maybe I was hyperbolic in my wording, but in my defense, most of the articles DO read like an AI hacked them together. That's really not OK. Your first comment was not written as an opinion or speculation.
        mattowen_uk 5y ago
        Since when are you the comment police ? ;)
        quesera 5y ago
        We are all the comment police. ;) Unsubstantiated accusations deserve to be called out. Sometimes downvoting is not enough.
- ceejayoz 5y ago
  https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ap-expands-relationship-with-data-skrive-as-preferred-automation-platform-for-sports-gambling-content-300881401.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ap-expands-relation... > The Associated Press has selected Data Skrive as its preferred platform for automated sports and gambling content. The increased breadth of content provides AP customers more inventory of local-focused sports and gambling news. The AP expects the expansion of content to help both small and large publishers attract new subscribers and grow audience. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial-intelligence-journalism-robots.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial... > Roughly a third of the content published by Bloomberg News uses some form of automated technology. The system used by the company, Cyborg, is able to assist reporters in churning out thousands of articles on company earnings reports each quarter. > The program can dissect a financial report the moment it appears and spit out an immediate news story that includes the most pertinent facts and figures. And unlike business reporters, who find working on that kind of thing a snooze, it does so without complaint. > In addition to covering company earnings for Bloomberg, robot reporters have been prolific producers of articles on minor league baseball for The Associated Press, high school football for The Washington Post and earthquakes for The Los Angeles Times. > Last week, The Guardian’s Australia edition published its first machine-assisted article, an account of annual political donations to the country’s political parties. And Forbes recently announced that it was testing a tool called Bertie to provide reporters with rough drafts and story templates. It's all over the place now.
  - 542458 5y ago
    From what I’ve seen of the tech, “assist” is the operant word here. It’s more like those article summary bots or a template fill-in-the-blank rather than something like GPT-2 that’s generating entirely novel phrases. A human still has to go in and make the text flow, correct things that don’t make sense, add good hooks, and (of course) an enticing title. The text isn’t “mostly written” by a bot - it’s still text that a human wrote, although it may have been summarized or had details populated by a bot.
    - ceejayoz 5y ago