Posted on 05/31/2020 3:13:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Microsoft is to replace dozens of contract journalists on its MSN website and use automated systems to select news stories, US and UK media report.
The curating of stories from news organisations and selection of headlines and pictures for the MSN site is currently done by journalists.
Artificial intelligence will perform these news production tasks, sources told the Seattle Times.
Microsoft said it was part of an evaluation of its business.
The US tech giant said in a statement: "Like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis. This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time to time, redeployment in others. These decisions are not the result of the current pandemic."
Microsoft, like some other tech companies, pays news organisations to use their content on its website.
But it employs journalists to decide which stories to display and how they are presented.
Around 50 contract news producers will lose their jobs at the end of June, the Seattle Times reports, but a team of full-time journalists will remain.
"It's demoralising to think machines can replace us but there you go," one of those facing redundancy told the paper.
Some sacked journalists warned that artificial intelligence may not be fully familiar with strict editorial guidelines, and could end up letting through inappropriate stories.
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Robots already doing the 'reporting,' robots already doing the listening/watching/reading.
So that's how President Trump is getting only 98% negative coverage.
AP’s ‘robot journalists’ are writing their own stories now
https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7939067/ap-journalism-automation-robots-financial-reporting
Robots that will be programed to read what LIBERALS write.
Does this mean AI is now capable of human-like bias and corruption?
Now that robots can emulate leftists the Democrats will make sure they get mail in ballots.
Maybe they could get the ‘non-English speaking moron’ that designed their ‘spell-check’ program to design their news website?
That would be a real hoot.
It makes perfect sense.
Not one “journalist” ever had an original thought. They are a herd of cows that follow the one with the bell.
Real live “journalist” are as programmed as an AI robot. Programmed to slant every story the way their masters want regardless of facts.
And when they don’t have facts, no problem, just make them up and attribute them to “unnamed sources”.
So going full AI is brilliant. Maintain the say level of lies with fewer expenses.
Human bias is a terrible problem when it comes to training an AI. The MS AI is probably being trained using the decision data based on liberal reporting decisions. And the data scientists most likely see nothing wrong with that.
Leftbots
Maybe related? We know how biased Google search selections are. And one could imagine a repeal of Section 230 therefore also applying to Google and Bing in terms of if they are in effect editorizializing in what they present to users, should they likewise be held to the liability standards of publishers?
The first cover the likes of Google and Twitter use to cover for their editorializing is that their algorithm made them do it. So would it not make sense for Microsoft to program their editorial into their algorithms across the board, so they could better first go with that plausible deniability first line of defense?
They should learn to code.
“They should learn to code.”
Get a real job?
Shirley you jest.
Yeah most likely some Indian H1B. Microsoft doesn’t even hore Americans for that role.
30 years of College teaching, including a stint teaching TOEFL and as an examiner. And an Indian body shop that Microsoft uses says i was unqualified as I don’t have a TOEFL score myself. I’m a native English speaker.
All I know is it’s obvious whoever designed Microsoft’s spellcheck for Win 10 couldn’t have spoke a word of English.
The suggested spelling makes no sense.
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