Courtesy: thehussle.co

This morning a  friend sent me this from India:

India, the world’s largest democracy, is now powered by a cult of personality

How Prime Minister Narendra Modi refashioned his governing party. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/modi-cult-of-personality/2021/03/18/dc7ee180-8773-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html)

Saying ‘DISGUSTING’.

I sent him, ‘Hey, It is Robo Writer, Stupid’.

If it comes from Washington Post about India and Modi very high likelihood is that it is Robo Writing.

What is Robo- writing?

It is ‘directed’ journalism.

It is old gamesmanship, at work.

Please bring your facts. My conclusion is here.

Please fill in content, my structure and conclusion is here.

It is also called Formulaic writing.

BTW: Robo writing does not mean that is totally without human. The human is ‘directed’ (modern slave) to  ‘direct’ data and info into given structure and conclusion.

You may have seen the warning signs about Robo- writing, as follows:

“OpenAI says its new robo-writer is too dangerous for public release.

OpenAI created an AI-powered text-generator that is so good that the nonprofit decided not to release it to the public for fear of its abuse.” the Hustle, February 15, 2019.

But newspaper industry is for profit (even if sometimes incorporated as Not for Profit).

It wants speed, more articles, quickly distributed.

Life is about scoop. Errata can follow (and who has the time to connect errata to the story line well distributed, ahead of others, and possibly already turned into wrapping paper or wiping paper).

And here comes AI.

The champions of AI are not dishonest.

They pre-sound you. It is not intelligence. It is ARTIFICIAL intelligence.

Please underline Artificial.

Now, if in the above article, you wanted to replace artificial intelligence by human intelligence, the title would have been:

India, the world’s largest democracy, is now powered by a cult of personality of the POOR and DOWNTRODDEN

How Prime Minister Narendra Modi refashioned his governing party- Now the party ticket is being given to a house maid also; Now the Padma awards are given to genuine, sincere, hardworking, unseen by camera and lights, unsung heroes.

If human intelligence would have been there, it must have added India (free or partitioned) have had only one cult of personality. That is Nehru- Gandhi. Chacha Nehru of 1947-1964, and Indira is India and India is Indira of 1975.

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