Security vendors have been using the "brainless writing" technology for whitepapers, press releases and other marketing collateral for over a decade, so not surprised that it is now being adopted by mainstream media
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM, H Morrow Long <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
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