Author Topic: Washington Post to autogen Rio Olympics articles (Read 2162 times)

rcjordan · « **on:** August 08, 2016, 12:14:50 AM »

"The Post is using homegrown software to automatically produce hundreds of real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting tomorrow morning, those items will appear, without human intervention, on the Post’s website, as well as in outside channels like its Twitter account."

http://www.recode.net/2016/8/5/12383340/washington-post-olympics-software

Brad · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2016, 01:17:13 AM »

Thanks for the tip, I will autoignore WashPost Olympic articles.

rcjordan · « **Reply #2 on:** August 08, 2016, 02:05:06 AM »

You can't. I'm ignoring ALL sports, so I need you to critique WP bots.

ergophobe · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2016, 09:25:38 PM »

Quote from: rcjordan on August 08, 2016, 02:05:06 AM

You can't. I'm ignoring ALL sports, so I need you to critique WP bots.

Almost all articles on high school and small-time college sports have been auto-written for some years now. For that matter, so are most short stock/business stories.

Brad · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2016, 09:53:22 PM »

Quote from: rcjordan on August 08, 2016, 02:05:06 AM

You can't. I'm ignoring ALL sports, so I need you to critique WP bots.

They ought to do okay - it's just sports scores which are pretty cut and dried, not like news which you have to make up. hhhh

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