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by bellyfullofbac 1911 days ago
AFAIK most sports reporting are already automated.. "$TEAM won $GAME at $VENUE!". Maybe with extra logic like "if winning point scored at less than 5 minute before the end, change the heading to "$TEAM clinches victory against $OPPONENT in the last minutes of the game!".

I remember some famous star telling an interesting anecdote on a TV show I was watching live (so not on-demand). I googled to see if there's more to the anecdote online, but as soon as the TV show ended, I got hundreds of results about the anecdote from all the pop culture websites, but they were all referencing her telling of the anecdote from 15 minutes before.

Ah, Internet Content Farms... there was probably a time where people only put high quality content on the Internet. Nowadays content creators ask for comments on their YouTube video to get it "trending" in the hopes of making more money, contributing even more junk.