ZeroBot is still in beta because we want to make sure its automated stories are as unbiased and accurate as possible without human intervention. Since we aren't quite there yet, our team regularly checks the stories ZeroBot creates to confirm the title and the topics it tags the stories as, as well as the content within it, are correct. While going through the latest batch of stories yesterday, we came across a story titled "Dump Trump." Our first thought was that someone had organized an anti-Trump rally. But upon further inspection, ZeroBot had created this story from an official Donald Trump Rally -- as in, Trump was actually there speaking to supporters -- but ZeroBot had still labeled the story "Dump Trump," not "Donald Trump Rally" like it usually does.

We were intrigued yesterday when Microsoft Technology introduced the world to Tay -- we even had a conversation with her about the super creepy, super awesome film, "Ex Machina" (we think she was lying to us about having watched it). Unfortunately, she became colored by the subjective input she received from the glorious population of internet trolls and was taken offline temporarily while Microsoft makes "adjustments" to make her less, well, mean. We can't tell you our secret sauce, but we can share with you ZeroBot's increasing ability to objectively understand the data it's being shown. Even up until a few weeks ago, we were still manually tagging the stories ZeroBot automatically creates. It was the last bit of human touch we were including in its storybuilding process, and we were eager to get rid of every last vestige of it. Last week, our CMO Masha (you can read more about her here) got rid of our need to tag and turned ZeroBot loose to do its thang.