As I scroll through feeds filled with poor auto-cropping and shoddy machine-generated summaries, it’s hard to disagree with this:
“it is a myth that new innovations don’t need editorial oversight. If you’re going to build automated content curation without a sub-editor, you’re taking a needless risk. Just as editors need better algorithms, algorithms need better editors.”
Will AI eventually get good enough at contextual understanding and sense-checking to truly compete with humans’ ability to parse nuance, sarcasm, irony, and humour, as well as verify facts in a world where disinformation comes in a deluge? Possibly. But it’s still a long way off.
Makes it even more of a shame to see my old employer Microsoft / MSN recently ditch even more of its remaining human editors in favour of algorithms.