{"id":9917,"date":"2014-03-25T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=9917"},"modified":"2014-03-25T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:02:55","slug":"not-written-by-a-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/03\/25\/not-written-by-a-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"Not written by a bot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The academic world recently learned that bots can write automated gibberish and — with a little help from their fleshy minions — can have it published<\/a> in mainstream peer-reviewed scientific publications. But are we prepared for what follows from the moment when bots can reliably produce writing that makes real sense<\/a> and which is useful and timely enough for use in major newspapers? It’s happening already<\/a>. The finances of newspapers are such that a wave of robo-journalism seems inevitable, once we have a few more advances in semantics and automated basic fact-checking<\/a>. Given the current dismal state of newspaper science reporting<\/a> such new-fangled robo-news may even be slightly better than what we have now.<\/p>\n

It follows that journal editors and publishers may soon need to add a new clause to their author guidelines, such as: “articles must be fully written by humans”. Not for fear of gibberish faux-papers, but rather because bots will be able to add sensible summaries and otherwise usefully aid in the writing of a research paper. Or we may need to develop an agreed form of simple presentation to flag up: [bot]this section of the text was written by bots[\/bot]<\/code> and to embed links to the bot’s sources.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, I’ve also often thought that the humourous LOLcat language<\/a> would form a pleasing basis for identifying messages-sent-to-humans by objects embedded in The Internet of Things<\/a>, clearly marking their simpler forms of communications to us as being: ‘not kreated by th humanz’. We already have the LOLcat translation systems available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The academic world recently learned that bots can write automated gibberish and — with a little help from their fleshy …<\/p>\n

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