[kronos29296]

What guarantee is there that the published news isn't fake? This might start something like viral fake facebook posts. We already have enough of those. Now we have automated fake news generator where you post your own fake news for free.

This is what it will become one day. Hope they have something to stop it.

[tokyoSurfer]

I am more afraid of options that this tool would have. Like fine tune it to be 5% friendlier on candidate 1 than 2. Report news on XXX 10% less than on news YYY. Make people happy. Make people sad. Make people compelling. All this by adjusting few options and changing the wording of articles.

[heartbreak]

But media companies could already do this with human writers if they wanted to. Maybe they do?

[tokyoSurfer]

It is much easier to fine tune few variables than fine tune human writing. Thus human writing will be easy to determine which side it is siding to.

[untog]

I don't really see what this has to do with fake news. Traditionally produced news stories can be fake, and algorithmically generated stories can be fake (when fed bad data).

The only solution to take news is news organisations that people can trust. Historically, local news organisations have always been the most trusted, but their income has been absolutely decimated in the last decade or so. This feels like a desperate cost cutting measure, not something that will help the overall problem.

[kronos29296]

This decreases the barrier to entry. Sometimes that's all it takes to encourage the wrong things. The overall system is failing because it cannot adapt to the new internet age. Hopefully something changes and we get reliable news.

[illumin8]

Ability to automate creation of news = ability to automate creation of propaganda = ability to automate censorship of news.

[minikites]

Why would this even be on Google's radar? They make money either way.