[orn688]

Not to detract from the gravity of the situation, but the main picture (and caption) are amazing.

"A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017."

[52-6F-62]

AFAIU Reuters is one of the leaders in terms of news/wire agencies for generating things like that via machine learning and other algos.

It might be an automated choice, where the author or editor merely had to check a few boxes before publishing to get a remotely relevant clipart and caption, essentially. Saves a lot of time and money in an age where it's sort of a weird abstract form that needs to be fulfilled.

-> Hed

-> Byline - Date

-> (Dek)

-> Graphic -> Caption

-> Body Copy

That is, it's not to say the system is elegant, yet....

https://innovation.thomsonreuters.com/en/labs.html

edit: LOL. Just a few more clicks brought me to this article. I laughed.

https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/art-artificial-in...

[elipsey]

Fantastic. In Ian Mcewan's novel 'Solar', the boorish physicist protagonist remarks that when people talk about "the planet" he assumes their remarks will be ignorant or frivolous and takes this as a cue to stop listening.

This is how I feel about any utterance of the word "cyber" occuring after 1993.

[duxup]

It might sound weird but those kinds of silly cyber images ... make me trust a given story less. They just seem dumb.