Robots are elbowing their way into journalism and could steal “hundreds” of jobs, fearful news hacks have told academics.

Professor Neil Thurman and Dr Jessica Kunert, researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and Konstantin Dörr from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, held a workshop with journalists working in various roles across the BBC, CNN, Thomson Reuters, Daily Mirror-publisher Trinity Mirror, and The Sun-owner News UK.

Conclusions from that confab were published in Digital Journalism

[theregister.co.uk...]
Bots for everything, and they are coming after your content, too.

While early daze (sic) for AI content writing, it does exist and they are not to be confused with "spinning" and other oddities of content trash. As the tech matures some webmasters might be tempted to "hire" a "news bot" (content AI generator) and then program the details/data to be created and click the start button.

Will this actually replace human writers/editors? Probably not, but it can go a long way to dealing with general minutia found in many articles and have value as a "research tool".