I agree Mark, I think the story telling is something those bots cannot mimic, and computerized bots don’t yet have the intellectual insights that human possess. On the other hand, I think publishers adoption of bots to write their content is a huge mistake that will only come back to haunt them.

For one, auto-generated content of any kind violates Google’s webmaster guidelines, and I and the administrators for my Google+ communities would instantly ban anyone caught doing such a thing. We would never tolerate it. I wouldn’t even take one second to read a post I knew was generated by a machine.