Re: Further advances in brainless writing

[John Bambenek <bambenek.infosec () gmail com>]

I'm not sure it's fair to call it brainless writing.  These algorithms 
will use logic to determine what to write.  Most sports writers don't 
even apply that.

I call this an advancement.

On 2/2/11 2:43 PM, Amrit Williams wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
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>     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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