The Google Digital News Initiative has invested $ 800,000 in the Reporters and Data and Robots (RADAR) project, which is run by the British news agency The Press Association. The essence of the project is to unite robotic journalists who will independently write articles based on information collected on the Web.
RADAR will be launched next year. It is assumed that bots will generate up to 30 thousand posts monthly. At the moment, five people are working on the creation of the project, whose tasks include debugging the automation of bots for collecting information about medicine, incidents, politics and many other areas.
It is assumed that RADAR will be able to help online publications create interesting clickable content, which, in turn, will allow sites to attract additional audiences and earn money from advertising.
The Press Association editor Pete Clifton noted that professional journalists will not be left without work, but bots will help significantly increase the volume of news items to a level that is difficult even for a well-coordinated team to cope with.
Now bots are already working in a number of large media outlets, but they still need editing and fact-checking - the program cannot always distinguish real news from a joke, for example, therefore, it still needs human control.
VYACHESLAV LARIONOV