"Robo-journalism gains traction" - Looks like they really should learn to code
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sg.news.yahoo.comPosted Mar 10, 2019, 7:34 PM UTC
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sg.news.yahoo.comWhat do they mean by "gains traction" ?
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Fuck me.....
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The new Meta! 😁
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I actually started experimenting with it, recently. It can be funny, because it makes the left look like idiots when you drop it into their Internet echo chambers, because they hate it, but it says all the things shills like to hear... just in a really stupid way.
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Robo journalism for the NPCs makes sense.
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Do androids dream of electric sheep? (or, Bladerunner)
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Journalism is a pretty low IQ pursuit. I doubt most of them would have the raw brain quality to make average programmers and even fewer would have the discipline.
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Came here to say that. Most people do not understand it, but generating non-creative textual or visual content is the first thing that AI will learn to do on par with a real people, long before it'll learn driving trucks.
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My degree is in advertising but that was part of Journalism program hilariously enough...I definitely chose it because it was an easy option and I do regret that to some degree because I could have done much more.
Anyways...90% of my peers in "journalism" were attractive but not bright girls - hipster potheads - and SJW's. Most were painfully dumb especially when it came to the only tough course media law and their arguments made me cringe daily. I couldn't believe these were college educated students and now they're probably out in the world calling themselves journalist.
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Investigative isn’t. But aggregating facts on the internet and writing an objective piece about them isn’t difficult, true.
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Maybe they can't learn to code? They didn't learn how to be journalists.
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Liberals are incapable in an infinite number of disciplines.
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The newer and approved term is:
LEARN TO COAL MINE.
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Learn to coal
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those lazy crybabies would never stand up to that kind of work.
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I just rewatched "October Sky," so this has extra meaning.
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AI + bots = even more Fake News.
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Will the introduction of AI result in more or less fake news? I would think it’s very difficult for AI to be able to put in the subtle slights and innuendos . Things like: “Without evidence, President Trump said....” or “a source inside the Whitehouse....”.
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This has been huge for 5 years now for stock news and electronics. All articles are algorithmicly generated everyday and compose of 75% of current publicly traded company news.
Hell even companies that went under years ago get auto generated news still.
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Now we have biased Robo journalist.
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This calls for VOLTRONPEDE: BASED ROBO JOURNALIST
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GenZ needs to get to work.
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Can you teach an AI to hate men?
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Yes, it's the story of Matrix
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yes, just combine modern feminism, big data, and machine learning /s
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Deus Ex, Eliza Cassan
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Damn, the things in the deus ex games keep becoming close to the reality. I hope there's no grey death equivalent around.
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Deus Ex is clearly based on Alex Jones. In HR, they even had a sound-alike on the radio. And did you ever read the books in it?
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Most of today's journalists have nothing to do with journalism, they don't investigate a topic and write an article about it. Instead they just take an existing story from a news agency or other articles and rewrites it slightly to fit whatever narrative they have been told to represent.
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They've been doing it with sports for decades. And modern reporters, with a handful of exceptions, don't perform journalism anyways. Not a loss
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Did these "journalist" really think their socialist overlords needed that many people writing the same exact story? It takes a shit load of poor people to run a big socialist city, they got buses and trains to make sure you can get your poor ass to work at the places that pay the least.
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If your only job is to parot the progressive agenda without thought, is it really any surprise a literal npc can do it better?
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"Rival news agency Reuters last year announced the launch of Lynx Insight, which uses automated data analysis to identify trends and anomalies and to suggest stories reporters should write."
Makes sense with the way Reuters has been going as of late.
There's so much automation out there creating content - Mainly in the business realm - due to the ease of language that is in the press releases.
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Well there's at least some good news. Any journalists who lose their job can always learn to code
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Code is learning to journalist
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Can we program one to debunk fake news?
Imagine having one of those go through the Washington Post fact Checkers and debunking them
Its 8000 items. Way too much for a person
No need for WaPo's NPCs anymore
Acosta a Walmart greeter...
nope walmarts phasing out greeters
The problem is AI lacks any critical thinking, at their base they are all statistical and the truth is whatever is repeated the most. 300 articles by the MSM will become the truth even if 50 articles have hard evidence refuting the former.
That's their goal.
So do NPC’s of any party.
Thats exactly what they do now.
if (source==NYT || WaPo || CNN || MSM[ ])
{
fakenews = TRUE;
}
if (fakenews == TRUE)
{
source = NULL);
}
Careful, that will cause false positives, since the values WaPo, CNN, and MSM could be interpreted as TRUE, assuming they're nonzero (probably an enum or something...).
In what universe?
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A good start would be to strip any news article of superfluous words. Certain adjectives add emotional impact to a statement; for example "miserable economy" or "desperate immigrant".
A single word can change things; a "repressed community" can become "racist", or "robust" depending upon the editor of a paper. Linguistic flourishes are where reporters try to skew stories to a political perspective.
In programming it is certainly possible to craft a regular expression to replace matching patterns in a given string and output basically only nouns and verbs.
Debunking, the debunked? Stop smoking weed.
Blockchain in some way will be a way to defeat fake news.
LOL. Got a problem? BLOCKCHAIN FTW!!!
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The moon is a harsh mistress
No need. We already have Twitter's Trust and Public Safety Bureau.
China already has that, true story... just do a search for "China AI news anchor"
Quite the opposite. Sooner rather than later there will be Open Source AI reporters giving you data, information and news the way you want it because you will be able to control it yourself. Of course, if you will want to lie to yourself, the AI will do that too. But if you're ready for the hard truth, you will be able to get that with a higher degree of certainty.
The key, then, will not be the reporter, which even now is supposed just to deliver the news, not make it. The key will be the raw data sources. That's why transparency/Open Data will be the most important thing ever... along with not letting the government rubberstamp everything with "classified", "top secreeet" etc. and claim that you don't need to see/know that for your own good/safety/security etc. Because even the best AI, without good data sources is going to be shit.
One good thing will definitely happen with the advent of AI reporters: the old MSM conglomerates which are the pillars of the bullshit copyright industry will be put out of business. Because you can't copyright data. But they are claming copyright on their representation of the data, hence Article 11 in EU's shit Copyright Directive that they're so close to ramming down everbody's throat. Let's see how they like them apples when everybody will be able to generate their own news starting from the raw data. The reeeeing will be heared from the edge of the atmosphere. And then they will collapse. And a new golden age will begin.