Microsoft is replacing dozens of MSN news production workers with AI(seattletimes.com)

7 pointsby playpausevor 6 Jahren2 comments

Microsoft is replacing dozens of MSN news production workers with AI

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/microsoft-is-cutting-dozens-of-msn-news-production-workers-and-replacing-them-with-artificial-intelligence/

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CM30vor 6 Jahren

I suspect we'll see more of this in future, since a lot of the work journalists/reporters do now can easily be automated away with AI.

It's already started happening with stories on sports results, which some outlets have already automated with templates and a data feed. It's probably going to happen with entertainment news too, given how many TV/movie/game/book/music related stories are just rewording press releases or posting trailers/advertisements.

And with the kind of tech mentioned in the article, a lot of the BuzzFeed style low effort stories seen on clickbait focused news sites are probably going to go the same way.

So yeah, we'll probably end up with a far smaller media industry in the foreseeable future, and one where eventually, everything except big ticket stories are written by machines rather than people.

[deleted]vor 6 Jahren

bzb3vor 6 Jahren

Does this mean the marginal cost of journalism is 0? :-)

nana-vor 6 Jahren