{"id":13756,"date":"2015-03-16T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13756"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:14","slug":"if-an-algorithm-wrote-this-how-would-you-even-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/if-an-algorithm-wrote-this-how-would-you-even-know","title":{"rendered":"If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"SHELLEY PODOLNY\">SHELLEY PODOLNY<\/span><\/span> \u2014 The New York Times<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"298\" data-total-count=\"298\">LET me hazard a guess that you think a real person has written what you\u2019re reading. Maybe you\u2019re right. Maybe not. Perhaps you should ask me to confirm it the way your computer does when it demands that you type those letters and numbers crammed like abstract art into that annoying little box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"258\" data-total-count=\"556\">Because, these days, a shocking amount of what we\u2019re reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms. We probably should have suspected that the information assaulting us 24\/7 couldn\u2019t all have been created by people bent over their laptops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"258\" data-total-count=\"556\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/08\/opinion\/sunday\/if-an-algorithm-wrote-this-how-would-you-even-know.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SHELLEY PODOLNY \u2014 The New York Times LET me hazard a guess that you think a real person has written what you\u2019re reading. Maybe you\u2019re right. Maybe not. Perhaps you should ask me to confirm it the way your computer does when it demands that you type those letters and numbers crammed like abstract [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64802,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions\/64802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}