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Facebook Fires Human Editors, Fake News Immediately Goes Viral

29 August, 2016 // 4 Comments

Last week Facebook had what it thought was a sure-fire solution to the accusations that the human editors of the trending news section were introducing an editorial slant which was biased against [Read More ...]

How to Feed and Raise a Wikipedia Robo-Editor

11 December, 2015 // 1 Comment

Wikipedia is to put artificial intelligence to the enormous task of keeping the free, editable online encyclopedia up-to-date, spam-free and legal. The Objective Revision Evaluation Service uses [Read More ...]

Bots Learn How to Write Clickbait Headlines That Will Shock You!

16 October, 2015 // 2 Comments

Everyone from startups like Narrative Science to news orgs like the LATimes and the AP are using algorithms to automatically generate news articles, and pretty soon they'll be able to get a bot that [Read More ...]

IBM Watson Tone Analyzer Could be the First Step Towards a Developmental Editor Bot

19 July, 2015 // 2 Comments

Writers have all sorts of automated tools at their disposal, including spellcheck, grammar check, word macros, Draftback, and (one day, hopefully) bots, and IBM wants to add another tool to [Read More ...]

Reuters Goes Freemium With New Online Syndication Offer

10 June, 2015 // 0 Comments

Over the past 160 years Reuters has built a business syndicating content to newspapers and magazines. They've adapted with the times to offer content online, and on Tuesday this organization [Read More ...]

NPR Pits Robot Reporter Against Journalist, When They Should Have Had Them Work Together

20 May, 2015 // 3 Comments

NPR's Planet Money published a story today on the rise of automatically generated news stories, but unfortunately they didn't push beyond the "oh, shiny tech" level of fluff. You can listen to the [Read More ...]

SCIpher Lets You Hide Secret Messages in Fake Conference Proceedings

14 April, 2015 // 0 Comments

Secret messages hidden in personal ads are an old trope in spy and thriller stories, and you can find all sorts of online tools to create your own. And now thanks SCIpher, you can even embed a [Read More ...]

Narrative Science raises $10 million, Fires its robot reporters

30 November, 2014 // 0 Comments

I'm breaking out the champagne tonight; that dystopian future where I get replaced by an algorithm has drawn one step further away. Narrative Science announced on Friday that they had raised another [Read More ...]

The AP is the Latest to Join the Robot Reporter Brigade

30 June, 2014 // 12 Comments

Twenty years ago the idea that robots would one day write the news we read everyday fell in the domain of SF writers and madmen, but today it is a simple fact. Following in the footsteps of many [Read More ...]