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Microsoft Replaces MSN Journalists with Artificial intelligence - Gizmodo
May 31, 2020 46 secs
Dozens of contract journalists at Microsoft’s MSN and Microsoft News organizations are being phased out in favor of artificial intelligence, according to multiple reports this week.

Microsoft’s news organizations already relied on algorithms for finding the most popular trending stories from among the company’s many publishing partners (MSN canned all original content years ago), but still relied on old-fashion, flesh-and-blood writers to help frame this content by tweaking wording, headlines, and photos.

Contract employees were also responsible for some day-to-day operations like maintaining editorial calenders for MSN’s partner news websites or curating scheduled content.

They added that replacing contract journalists with software may end up blowing up in Microsoft’s face given the “very strict editorial guidelines” the company gave them for keeping violent or inappropriate content off the front page.

Google has also begun funding automated news projects and designing training resources for journalists to incorporate AI into their newsrooms.

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