Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories
I ran across this article while researching a stock and as I read, I kept thinking, "This was not written by a person. This was written by software." [0]<p>I checked the attribution, and there is a person's name on it. Sure, any hack can write and publish and this is probably just another example. But the odd style doesn't even strike me as 'writing the way I think' or writing and publishing quickly without editing. For example, from the 2nd paragraph, "The corresponding low also paints a picture and suggests that the low is nothing but a 97.89% since 11/14/16." I can't gather any meaning from that statement, yet it has oddly specific details.<p>I am not glad to see this trend and not glad that Google is embarking on this path. I suppose it is inevitable, but unless there is expertise built into this AI that can extract meaning from data on my behalf and present it in a way that is more insightful and interesting than I am, it will become yet another source of chaff I'll have to filter.<p>Can we at least, please, flag AI generated prose as such?<p>[0] <a href="https://www.nystocknews.com/2017/07/05/tesla-inc-tsla-showcases-what-it-has-to-offer-via-the-technical-chart/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nystocknews.com/2017/07/05/tesla-inc-tsla-showca...</a>