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For those in the business of words, copy editors are considered the “safety nets,” the meticulous proofreaders who catch everything from spelling mistakes to major factual errors.

And in the era of “fake news,” averting error is more important than ever.

For these reasons and others, employees at the New York Times are outraged over a recent decision to eliminate the newspaper’s stand-alone copy desk, a team that includes more than 100 copy editors.

Photino Bird wrote:
Ne znam, ljudi, šta ćemo raditi u eri nakon kraha profesionalnih medija. Bez profesionalnog posredovanja informacija nije informacija, već besmisleni šum.

No Country wrote:

Photino Bird wrote:
Ne znam, ljudi, šta ćemo raditi u eri nakon kraha profesionalnih medija. Bez profesionalnog posredovanja informacija nije informacija, već besmisleni šum.

Па ништа, радићемо тачно ово што смо већ увелико почели: нећемо бити грађани него потрошачи, нећемо живети у демократији него у ријалитикратији, нећемо се информисати већ кликати на аброве из таблоида. Кроз пар генерације ће пад просечног IQ-a бити сасвим мерљив.

Hubert de Montmirail wrote:
Vest je roba a onaj ko želi da bude dobro informisan je potrošač. Tako je bilo zadnja dva veka. Postavlja se pitanje zašto ljudi sve manje žele da budu dobro i objektivno informisani.

Hubert de Montmirail wrote:Mogao bih da se složim ali je to ideološki stav, tako nije nikad bilo u praksi.

Hubert de Montmirail wrote:

No Country wrote:
Па ништа, радићемо тачно ово што смо већ увелико почели: нећемо бити грађани него потрошачи, нећемо живети у демократији него у ријалитикратији, нећемо се информисати већ кликати на аброве из таблоида. Кроз пар генерације ће пад просечног IQ-a бити сасвим мерљив.

Vest je roba a onaj ko želi da bude dobro informisan je potrošač. Tako je bilo zadnja dva veka. Postavlja se pitanje zašto ljudi sve manje žele da budu dobro i objektivno informisani.

No Country wrote:Информисање и број информација нису у тој хегелијанској квантитет-у-квалитет вези. Штавише, (без)број информација често ради против информисаности. Бити информисан значи научити нешто, променити став, па макар и у нијансама. Данас је могућ, а често га и гледамо, тачно обрнут процес: могуће је наћи хрпу информација које потврђују твој донети став.

Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK with 30,000 'articles' a month
Templated stories sourced from gov databases to push web ads. Welcome to your dystopia

By Katyanna Quach  6 Jul 2017 at 20:14  
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Google has today awarded €706,000 ($800,000) to the UK’s Press Association to develop robot reporters that can crank out 30,000 articles a month for local newspapers and bloggers.

The cash injection is part of the advertising goliath's €150m Digital News Initiative, a three-year program that allegedly supports European journalism through technology (or, rather, helps websites get more readers and thus shift more Google ads). Now in its third and final year, the fund will bankroll 107 projects in 27 countries to the tune of €22m ($25m) in 2017.

The Press Association project – codenamed RADAR, or Reporters and Data and Robots – will be a collaborative effort with Urbs Media, a UK startup that specializes in automated data journalism. The Press Association is Blighty's equivalent of America's Associated Press – a roving newswire that feeds stories to publications.

PA said in a statement: “RADAR is intended to meet the increasing demand for consistent, fact-based insights into local communities, for the benefit of established regional media outlets, as well as the growing sector of independent publishers, hyperlocal outlets and bloggers.”

Natural language processing software will be used to piece together information and emit computer-generated stories on an industrial scale. We're told a team of five journos will apply the code to publicly available government databases to create stories about politics, crime, and so on, all from templates. So, basically, churned press releases.

Pete Clifton, editor-in-chief of the PA, reckons the bots will help Britain's hard-pressed and diminishing local press fulfill demands for more and more page views as well as filling spaces in print.

He told Press Gazette: “At a time when many media outlets are experiencing commercial pressures, RADAR will provide the news ecosystem with a cost-effective way to provide incisive local stories, enabling audiences to hold democratic bodies to account.

“Skilled human journalists will still be vital in the process, but RADAR allows us to harness artificial intelligence to scale up to a volume of local stories that would be impossible to provide manually.”
PA received the largest chunk of grants among other UK recipients. Other beneficiaries include:

• Wikipedia – €385,000
  
• City University, which has a popular journalism school – €335,113
  
• Full Fact, the fact-checking organization – €300,000
  
• Dennis Publishing, owner of various computing titles and other rags – €160,000
  
• Al Jazeera – €50,000
  
  

Robots are already used by several media companies. China employed AI writing robot Xiaomingbot, which pushed out hundreds of stories covering the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last year.

The Los Angeles Times recently made headlines as its Quakebot reported a false magnitude 6.8 earthquake off the coast of Santa Barbara, California – proving that machines can make mistakes too. ®

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