The Next Latin American Soap Opera: Courtesy AI?
Lorena Mesa, chair of the Python Software Foundation, is tweaking AI-generating writing software to produce a telenovela script.
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It makes sense, she says, given that telenovela plots follow a well-established formula that AI can most likely replicate.
“I’ve always been really intrigued with the question of whether we can automate a creative process,” Mesa says. “Also, it’s really fun to watch telenovelas,” she adds. “Let’s be real.”
In other AI-generated writing news:
*AI Robot Will Moderate Comments for News24 Web Site: News24 plans to use an AI robot to moderate comments below the articles it publishes online beginning August.
In part, the robot will be charged with filtering out hate speech and racist comments, according to a post on the news outlet’s Web site.
The AI software – Coral from Vox Media – is currently used by The New York Times and the Washington Post, according to Adriaan Basson, editor-in-chief, News24.
“Since we took down comments in 2015, our readers have been begging us to return the ability for you to make your voices heard,” Basson says.
“We have found the perfect solution,” he adds.
*Study: Human Journalists Still Have an Edge Over AI-Generated News: Researchers at Macromedia University of Applied Science have found that articles written by humans are perceived by readers as higher quality and easier to read.
Moreover, readers in the 12 distinct studies reviewed by the researchers also thought human-generated articles were just as credible as those written by machines.
One caveat: Readers tended to root for human writers – and give humans higher reviews – when they knew they were evaluating articles written by their flesh-and-blood brethren.
*New AI Tool Coaches Fiction Writers: Authors A.I. has released a new tool designed to help writers produce best-selling fiction.
Dubbed “Marlowe,” the software uses AI to show writers how their novel stacks-up against proven best sellers.
“Fiction authors have seen the marketplace change radically in the past decade with the dawn of ebooks, self-publishing — and, now, a boom in audiobooks,” observes J.D. Lasica, co-founder, Authors A.I.
“It’s time to add artificial intelligence to the list,” Lasica adds.
*Demise of Journalists Greatly Exaggerated: Despite the growing presence of AI-generated writing in the newsroom, journalists’ jobs are safe for the foreseeable future, according to Mark van Rijmenam.
He’s author of “The Organisation of Tomorrow.”
It details how AI, bockchain and analytics is changing business.
AI-generated journalism has “shown tremendous possibility in clearing away much of the field’s hard labor: collecting data, transcribing recordings, writing fewer interesting articles, etc,” Rijmenam observes.
“But when it comes to the...
