The Future of Auto-Generated Content?

£100,000 Gizmo That Writes Articles

[trillianjedi]

First it was the typewriter, then the teleprinter. Now a US news service has found a way to replace human beings in the newsroom and is instead using computers to write some of its stories.

Thomson Financial, the business information group, has been using computers to generate some stories since March and is so pleased with the results that it plans to expand the practice.

The computers work so fast that an earnings story can be released within 0.3 seconds of the company making results public.

[ft.com...]

[engine]

Earnings stories tend to have a standard format, therefore, it's easier to format them.

Try that with any other story and the software could result in it being highly embarrassing.

[Syzygy]

Generated computer? Wonder there much a in things journalists a sound to death as knell if future of is such and whether may this I for?

:-)

Yygzsy

[Tidal2]

And death knell sound for journalists if a computer generated such things. May I wonder to whether there is as much of a future in this?

:-)

Am I close?