Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms
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Microsoft 'to replace journalists with robots'
Microsoft is to replace dozens of contract journalists on its MSN website and use automated systems to select news stories, US and UK media report. The curating of stories from news organisations and selection of headlines and pictures for the MSN site is currently done by journalists. Artificial intelligence will perform these news production tasks, sources told the Seattle Times.
Microsoft said it was part of an evaluation of its business. The US tech giant said in a statement: "Like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis. This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time to time, redeployment in others. These decisions are not the result of the current pandemic."
[...] Around 50 contract news producers will lose their jobs at the end of June, the Seattle Times reports, but a team of full-time journalists will remain.
Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots
One staff member who worked on the team said: "I spend all my time reading about how automation and AI is going to take all our jobs, and here I am - AI has taken my job."
Also at Business Insider, The Verge, GeekWire, and MSPoweruser.
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