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Editors, trained in the ways of search engine optimization, would approve or deny each while also coming up with their own ideas. The process worked fine. But once it was automated, every algorithm-generated piece of content produced 4.9 times the revenue of the human-created ideas. So Rosenblatt got rid of the editors. Suddenly, profit on each piece was 20 to 25 times what it had been. It turned out that gut instinct and experience were less effective at predicting what readers and viewers wanted — and worse for the company — than a formula.

No?! Algorithms beating journalists?! You don’t say. The arrogance towards these issues needs to end.

The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | Magazine

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