Could we replace entertainment journos with robots?

Radio host Jules Lund had some interesting words for the world’s entertainment reporters, comparing them to robots during a gameshow today.

Lund was one of the competitors on the Game for Change gameshow panel at the Mumbrella360 conference when the topic of algorithms which automatically create articles based on pre-determined events, such as an earthquake.

Likening that to entertainment journalists he quipped: “They wake up, see a celebrity tweet, copy, paste, and publish.”

He continued: “They are human bots. They’re not breaking stories, they’re just going on a social feed, ripping everything from on there, and hitting print.