Robots writing more news stories than you think

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• I'm pretty sure robots have been writing for the NYT for years, but they are robots only in lockstep thought, they are human otherwise.

• Why not, they're already writing for the egghead journals aren't they? Could never figure out when it said peer reviewed if it meant other robots.

  • Ah, you refer to that other robots-taking-over story:

    https://www.ihatethemedia.com/computergenerated-fake-papers-are-flooding-academia

    Makes you wonder how long before we have our first robot Shakespeare. Here's what I want to know: will the robots ever learn to write puns? And if so, will they write them with an autopun?

    • Ever read any of the "best of" conversations between people online and that artificial intelligence program? I'll have to look up the name, shouldn't be too hard to find. They used to have a site where you could go 'talk' to a computer, some turned out hilarious.

• Hasn't this been tried before, or did Al Gore not actually contribute any content to the news channel he owned?

• So...what you're saying is that Brian Williams is not a robot? Are you sure?

  • Actually he is a white house Sex Android......duties are different he only reads what the other robots write and bends over on command...

• Convince? No convince, just program 'em to do it. The flowchart is just a few lines:

  Political story... input facts
  |
  Do facts make Democrooks look good or bad?
  |
  Good, write story
  |
  Bad, can we twist facts to make Democrooks look good?
  |
  Yes, write story
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  No, can I make something up out of whole cloth that sort of sounds like the story but makes Democrooks look good?
  |
  Yes, write story
  |
  No, drop story, yell "LOOK, SQUIRREL!"

  This is much like what journOlists do now only the robots probably will know spelling and grammar.