Automatic (journalism) for the people

Automatic (journalism) for the people

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This article was written by a human, but then again, any computer designed to pass Turing’s famous test would say that, wouldn’t it?

Even if you believe me, it might not be that long before an awful lot of content on the internet is being churned out by automated systems. I use the term “content” quite specifically, here: content is a product, a consumable that the modern internet increasingly subsists on, and can, according to Google and the UK’s Press Association, increasingly be generated by algorithms. Conversely, journalism, we might hope, […]

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