Re: Further advances in brainless writing

[Amrit Williams <johndoe321 () gmail com>]

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 <morrow.long () yale edu> 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
>
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> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:06:29 -0800
> From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
> Subject: [funsec] Further advances in brainless writing
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> http://improbable.com/2011/02/01/further-advances-in-brainless-writing/
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> 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.
>
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