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I've read Automated Insights automated summaries of fantasy football games for yahoo. If that is indicative of their capabilities, then the role of human writer

• 80ProofPudding 12y ago
  Hear, hear. There are some kinds of stories this can work for - ie, the earthquake bot - but this is not a good general solution. Modern users are sensitive to low-quality content writing as an indicator of product quality. Crappy writing is spam, high-quality writing in an authentic voice is someone worth listening to. I'm not staking out the claim that this will never be possible, but I've yet to see it executed well.
• EmergencyCheese 12y ago
  As the person at Automated Insights who writes most of our blog posts and white papers, I agree that human writers are essential! Typically, our software does jobs humans either can't do (it's not practical for humans to write millions of fantasy recaps per week) or don't want to do (when AP announced it would use our software to automate corporate earnings stories, reporters who had done that job manually were the most excited).