news.com.au Covers CrowdForge
In the Media
news.com.au warns journalists about potential quality of crowd sourced journalism. The article describes the CrowdForge developed by HCII’s Niki Kittur, Bob Kraut and Boris Smus.
“JOURNALISTS, consider this a warning.
“The crowd doesn’t care for your craft anymore. It can do it better and it can do it cheaper.
“Or so researchers at Carnegie Mellon University claim, after proving single articles can be written by dozens of people with no discernible drop in quality or accuracy.”