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Robot journalism isn't going to be great for journalists. Publications will quickly gravitate towards the content farm model where every article will be accomp
by benologist 12y ago
Robot journalism isn't going to be great for journalists. Publications will quickly gravitate towards the content farm model where every article will be accompanied by 20 - 30 keyword permutations and no overhead for articles that don't pull social media traffic/shares/links. You can already see companies like Mashable pushing the limits of doing this by hand.
I wonder if/how Google will differentiate between automated news vs machine-generated spam?
- xorcist 12y ago> I wonder if/how Google will differentiate between automated news vs machine-generated spam? If history is any guide, I think this line will be more and more difficult to draw.
- chris_va 12y agoIt's easier than you might think. Machines are, if nothing else, good at identifying things other machines have created. People also often forget that Google doesn't just have to look at the page content to analyze something. Reader behavior, for example, can tell you a lot.
- xorcist 12y agoI'm not so sure about that. Machine curated news could easily be used as base for spam, for example.