[paraschopra]

All hell will break loose when algorithms start writing these articles, imagine information just getting recycled with no new information conveyed. Of course, algorithms could detect correlations and patterns in text but would they be able to produce original and genuinely interesting articles?

[brandnewlow]

Machine-generated sports stories via Northwestern's CS department: http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/innovation/page.aspx?id=1...

[brfox]

Paying someone a minimal amount to write about something for which they have no in-depth knowledge (i.e. they only scraped it from other online sources) is probably not much different from just having an algorithm write an article. In fact, an algorithm might do a better job.