Re:The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell
by paraschopra on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @11:49PM
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All hell will break loose when algorithms start writing these articles, imagine information just getting recycled with no new information conveyed. Of course, algorithms could detect correlations and patterns in text but would they be able to produce original and genuinely interesting articles?
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Re:The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell
by brandnewlow on Thursday October 29, 2009 @01:04AM
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Machine-generated sports stories via Northwestern's CS department: http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/innovation/page.aspx?id=1...
Re:The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell
by brfox on Thursday October 29, 2009 @01:16AM
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Paying someone a minimal amount to write about something for which they have no in-depth knowledge (i.e. they only scraped it from other online sources) is probably not much different from just having an algorithm write an article. In fact, an algorithm might do a better job.