Current Events > Microsoft firing journalists on staff, replacing them with an AI

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s0nicfan
05/30/20 7:08:28 PM
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Tl;dr: Microsoft keeps about 50 journalists on staff to curate their news pages and have decided to replace all of them with an AI system that will select the stories instead.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52860247
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.

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Irony
05/30/20 7:09:12 PM
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Damn, sucks for IGN

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Axiom
05/30/20 7:13:02 PM
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Wait you mean MSN articles weren't already written by bots. Could've fooled me
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harley2280
05/30/20 7:14:30 PM
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La li lu le lo?
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Turtlemayor333
05/30/20 7:15:35 PM
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DifferentialEquation
05/30/20 7:24:19 PM
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They need an AI. Who else could wade through the sea of garbage the media produces.

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UnholyMudcrab
05/30/20 7:27:04 PM
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Parappa09
05/30/20 7:28:30 PM
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One journalist quoted in the paper said: "I spend all my time reading about how automation and AI is going to take all our jobs - now it's taken mine."

that hits close to home

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