Humans Still Top Computers In Content Curation (For Now)

A piece on MediaShift the other day should bring hope to the journalists who fear their jobs have been outsourced to algorithms and “robot writers:” people are still best at some things.

Dorian Benkoil argues that tech companies are turning to editorially-minded staff to help “identify and stoke conversations across the digisphere” rather than using algorithms because humans are still better. Examples: Say Media acquired ReadWriteWeb; Flipboard hired a magazine editor, and BuzzFeed has hired away staffers from Rolling Stone, Gawker and Politico.

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