Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK with 30,000 'articles' a mo

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Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK with 30,000 'articles' a mo

tangor

4:09 am on Jul 7, 2017 (gmt 0)

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.

[theregister.co.uk...]

Just what we need.... more bots! Only this time they are coming for the content (creation). we live in interesting times.

WhoKnows111

7:24 pm on Jul 16, 2017 (gmt 0)

Quality content is the King :-D

keyplyr

9:18 pm on Jul 16, 2017 (gmt 0)

I've been following the 'Reporters and Data and Robots' (RADAR) story for a couple months. This will be a major test of whether Google's AI implementation can really make it in the public sector, outside of it's own utilities. Very interesting developments.

MrSavage

4:59 am on Jul 25, 2017 (gmt 0)

This makes my skin crawl.

jmccormac

5:19 am on Jul 25, 2017 (gmt 0)

Just think of all those "ain't Google great?" shills it will put out of work. Oh the huge manatee! :) There will be even fewer investigative stories into Google's activities than there are at present. Perhaps some people in the media might decide to stop being churnalists and become journalists.

Regards...jmcc

tangor

6:45 am on Jul 25, 2017 (gmt 0)

Perhaps some people in the media might decide to stop being churnalists and become journalists.

Nah... too much work. If an AI can do it (they might say) let me hire that critter toot sweet! (sic, spelled wrong just like the AI will as well).

aristotle

7:17 pm on Aug 10, 2017 (gmt 0)

robot reporters that can crank out 30,000 articles a month for local newspapers and bloggers.

Where will these robot reporters get the information for their articles? Does it mean that they will steal it from the original sources?

P.S. Will google include the robot articles in its search results?

brotherhood of LAN

9:27 pm on Aug 10, 2017 (gmt 0)

Meat bots pin pointing real world events and putting them into a scrapeable form, something Google likes. I'd be impressed if the automation uses microdata, though I'd suppose Google doesn't strictly need it to understand the content.