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Articles tagged bots (36)

OkayNWA’s AI-generated news site is the future of local journalism and/or a glorified CMS.
“We have observed a broad spectrum of behaviors mixing the characteristics of bots and people.”
Plus: How news organizations use TikTok, challenges in covering white nationalism, newsbot–audience communication, and the organizational behavior of Russia Today.
Indiana University researchers “have found that steep competition for users’ limited attention means that some ideas go viral despite their low quality — even when people prefer to share high-quality content.”
Plus: A big overview of all the research that we have so far.
“For us, this is a way to let people read and ask questions at their own pace, instead of having them read through long screens of text. Often people aren’t engaged in stories because they haven’t had the right context.”