Bots Can Now Write Articles

.....and they're pretty good at it too

Hey JessAI

A while back I wrote a post about how automation will eventually kick our asses out of the job market and how rudimentary tasks are going to be a thing of the past.

While creative jobs like writing may be less affected well that may have been true to an extent until I came across the Open AI project funded by our saviour and chief Elon Musk.

In Elon we Musk!

Bots are starting to take over writing jobs and if you're a journalist or content creator you may want to start looking at upskilling in other ways before you get shit canned. There have been report that the Washington Post has already published 500 articles written by AI and I recently found a marketing blog that is created by an AI.

We're slowly getting skynetted and no one bats an eye until self-driving cars start telling us to fuck off and walk you lazy slow human I think people will not notice and get blindsided once it takes full effect.

I think each time a niche AI is created there should be an impact study done and we need to look at how we roll out this technology in each sector. AI can naturally learn more from humans and begin to refine the tech while humans can find other outlets to transition to in a smooth process that shouldn't just put people out on their ass.

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Bot Journalism

It's not only the Washington post that's trying out this new tech but The Guardian as well as Vox. While i'm impressed at the level of quality that these AI are spitting out It also shows how shitty journalists are and that they write cold methodic content that can be replicated and show no sense of personality.

We all know journalism is bias so own that shit and write something that's a decent replication of your thoughts and facts and not to sensationalise things, that was the job, I guess that just doesn't get the clicks it needs to sell ad space does it? Churn em out is the way to go!

Which is probably why we will we see a new age of robot reporters doing all the heavy lifting with a few editors moderating this new workforce.

AI reporters can scour millions of sources as well as user-generated content online to formulate opinions and provide facts with source material attached and do it in the fraction of a time a human can do it in, so why wouldn't publishers opt for this service?

I can see this working out for bloggers as well as sites looking for regular content and landing page content. It really has some crazy applications that could put a lot of freelancers out of a job and save site owners a ton on content spend.

With great power comes great responsibility

I think the president has to be set now on how we govern robot content creation and that it needs to be clearly marked. While content will be created by bots it's consumed by humans and their reaction to it can have an effect on perceptions and by in large the world.

Readers need to made aware of bot content as we do sponsored content and not to mention accountability, who takes responsibility for bot content that incites violence or misinforms people where they lose money or even their lives?

Bot content will surely have its place on the internet but we're going to need to be careful about how it's dispersed, curated and consumed.

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