From Wired, an article by Steven Levy about Narrative Science, a company that does this. Its cofounder has a prediction:

I asked Kristian Hammond what percentage of news would be written by computers in 15 years. “More than 90 percent.”

I am presuming they could still structure bias so New York Times readers wouldn’t feel cheated.

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