I believe it was NPR which ran an article this past week on how some smaller newspapers are now using software to automatically compose sports stories from raw stats on games (players names tagged to touchdowns, field goals, extra points/attempts, etc.) where they can't afford to pay sportswriters.
The software also apparently knows some 1,000 special colorful sports "stock phrases" and randomly cycles between them to describe such common game events as "bases loaded", a "hat trick" and an "eagle" in an attempt to make readers think that there is actually a witty and creative sportswriter behind the stories. - Morrow -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:06:29 -0800 From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <[email protected]> Subject: [funsec] Further advances in brainless writing To: [email protected] Message-ID: <4D47E935.21567.106F158C@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII http://improbable.com/2011/02/01/further-advances-in-brainless-writing/ As a reviewer of books, and a researcher into social networking, I must say that I find this new development at once redundant, and terribly frightening. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. - Ashleigh Brilliant victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
