And the bot doesn't get the details wrong!
I mistakenly wrote "Bill Hammond" instead of "Kristian Hammond" in my TL;DR. (Sorry Kristian.)
Re:More News Is Being Written By Robots
by higherpurpose on Friday March 28, 2014 @08:02AM
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But it could still have bias.
Everything is subject to bias.
An opensource bot -
https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser/
- The LA Times claims they were first to publish anything on the quake, and outside the USGS, they probably were.
- The LA Times example isn’t special because it’s the first algorithm to write a story on a major news site.
- Indeed, Kristian Hammond, cofounder and CTO of Narrative Science, thinks some 90% of the news could be written by computers by 2030.
- The LA Times earthquake story, written by an algorithm created by one of their staff, included a disclaimer.
This TL;DR was written by a bot.
http://www.textteaser.com/s/Y4TWuU