ABC O&O's are Using Robots to Write Web Stories

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Are the ABC O&O's quietly phasing out humans? 

Sources tell FTVLive that the O&O's have been using robots to write stories for the station's websites.

The company is using a program called "Hoodline".

Here is an example of a Hoodline story on WPVI's (Philly) website.

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Hoodline scans Yelp, apartment sites and other review sites to "create" stories from the scans. It then publishes the stories on its own to the sites.

No mention a human had nothing to do with it.

It appears to be a long way from writing a "real" story but it's a first step. 

And the Hoodline Robot doesn't ask for days off or overtime.