Can you tell when a robot has written your news?

Quite possibly not:

Last year also saw the publication of research that showed that people couldn’t tell the difference between articles written by journalists, and articles written by software.

For more on the rising trend of news stories being written by computer code rather than by human journalists, see my earlier post, The robots keep on coming: sports reporting, business stories and now wine tasting.

In related news, NASA has this to say: