Hmmm... Googling: "elected as the MP for" "was created using some automation", reveals very little variation. We're not exactly talking AI powered journalism here. More mail merge than ML.
Next week: How computers wrote your last electricity bill.
"None of the stories have any quotations in, none of them have any analysis of what happened or what the significance is. It is purely a written version of what has happened based on the data. So that's quite a big downside in terms of quality of journalism."
However, Mr McKenzie said the BBC was still in the "very early stages of understanding what audiences want from the technology".
With the way news works today, are we sure this is really a downside?