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Lately people have been telling me that they don't like the quality of the bot, so I've decided to disable it.

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[โ€“] CluckN 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It did pretty good. Some journalists would fill their article with so much useless information that the bot would unfortunately miss the two relevant sentences.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The problem is that many journalists these days get paid by article length/word count, so they inflate the shit out of it and hope whoever is in charge of proofreading doesn't cut too much out. If you compare articles written in newspapers/websites where they still have a regular staff on payroll vs. those that have more "guest authors" than anything, you'll immediately see what I mean. It's a shame really.