Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI

[saravana85]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/30/21275524/microsoft-news-msn-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-ai-replacements

[osobo]

I just see a bunch of portal editors seeing fired. A guy picking through blurbs to post on a channel is not a journalist. Basically MS starts doing what everybody else has been doing all along: curation by algorithm.

[Xoltus]

Maybe Microsoft hires Tay[1] as one of their new AI journalists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

[intended]

I bet that This will come under the “what could possibly go wrong.” In a few years time.