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127
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127
Special Interest Intangible Harm
yes
Date of Incident Year
2020
Date of Incident Month
06
Date of Incident Day
09
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No
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127
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Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations. The layoffs are part of a bigger push by Microsoft to rely on artificial intelligence to pick news and content that’s presented…

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Microsoft fired many journalists after it decided to replace them with artificial intelligence robots.
Staff who maintain the Microsoft's MSN website news homepages on and its Edge browser have been told that they will be no longer needed a…

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Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software.
Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every …

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Over the weekend, Microsoft announced that it’s laying off dozens of journalists, editors, and other workers at MSN and its other news divisions.
While media layoffs are tragically widespread at the moment, Microsoft said that…

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The team working on the Microsoft website did not publish original stories but instead exercised editorial control, choosing articles created by other news outlets and, where necessary, editing material and headlines to suit the format. The…

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- Microsoft laying dozens of Journalists & COVID 19 is not the reason for this layoff
Tech giant Microsoft is laying off several journalists at its Microsoft News and MSN Organization (Microsoft owns MSN.com). However, this lay off has noth…

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Now onwards you are going to see news stories generated by AI on homepages of the MSN website and Edge browser.
Microsoft has been fired dozens of journalists and editorial workers at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations — leveraging ro…

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Microsoft’s decision to replace human journalists with AI to run its news and search site MSN.com has been criticized after the automated system confused two mixed-race members of British pop group Little Mix.
As first reported by The Guard…

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Microsoft's AI editor posted a story about Ms Thirlwall’s experience with racism on the search site MSN.com, but mistakenly used a photo of her bandmate, Ms Pinnock
They’re two of the biggest pop stars in the world, but Little Mix’s Jade Th…

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Microsoft’s decision to replace human journalists with robots has backfired, after the tech company’s artificial intelligence software illustrated a news story about racism with a photo of the wrong mixed-race member of the band Little Mix.…

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A week after laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence, Microsoft’s robot editor confused two members of the British singing group Little Mix, who are both mixed-race.
Singer Jade…

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Amid the 'Black Lives Matter' protests happening in the United States, a not surprising error has been made by Microsoft's MSN involving two of the members of Little Mix. An article was written about its member Jade Thirlwall on the front p…
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