Many of the Journalists working for Microsoft on contract basis sacked and replaced by AI based solution.

Many of the journalists and editorial workers that worked for Microsoft on contract basis are now being let go and are replaced with artificial intelligence software.

The content on MSN.com will now be chosen and presented by artificial technologies as earlier work like selecting and organizing of headlines and pictures was done by the journalists.

These journalists were a part of Microsoft’s SANE section and as editors they helped pick stories.

The US tech giant also cleared that these contract workers are not being let go because of COVID-19 pandemic affecting their revenues but simply because it is a part of their plan of evaluating their business.

In a statement, Microsoft said "Like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis. This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time to time, redeployment in others. These decisions are not the result of the current pandemic."

Microsoft pays other news organisations to use their content on its website and the task of journalists was to decide what stories will be presented and how stories should be presented. Approximately 50 contract journalists will lose their jobs and only the full time journalists would still be employed.

Many people also doubt the working of Artificial intelligence as some of the out of contract journalists said that a journalist has to follow a very strict guideline so as to curate an appropriate story and an artificial intelligence may fail in delivering a story that is not inappropriate.

This move by Microsoft has disgruntled many of its employees as they feel that this move was superfluous.

One of the employee said "It's demoralising to think machines can replace us but there you go"

Another said “I spend all my time reading about how automation and AI is going to take all our jobs - now it's taken mine."