That gets parsed back into data again by HFT bots probably. It's a mad world.

I ran across this one on the Motley Fool and discovered that they're doing this already.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/11/02/is-activisi...

The first 12 paragraphs and the last paragraph are completely boilerplate. There are two paragraphs in the middle that were probably human-written. What I don't know is whether this is just a prosthetic "code-generation" tool for their writers, or whether it's just this one writer.

This Google search shows that it is definitely boilerplate, and that some articles appear to be 100% generated:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1438&bih=697&...

Definitely a bot to "fool" the financial news aggregators.

HFT = High Frequency Trading ?

Yep. They do natural language parsing of wire news stories to try and synthesize market intelligence. Which is one day going to lead to a civilization-ending feedback loop due to the sort of thing we're discussing here (in my paranoid hyperbolic opinion :)