Why I Created this Website

Back in 2020, I had read this article about Microsoft had laying off journalists and replacing them with AI. I wondered about the challenge would be to create something like that, so I set about looking into that in my peronal time. My first idea was to go with Google since I had done a lot of consulting with Google Cloud, so I created a Python script that queried Gemini and posted the results to Blogger. I kept asking Geminit to give me current news and it was giving me news over a year old. After asking Gemini directly when it was last updated, it told me it only had data in its model from April 2023 and earlier. That may have changed since I asked it that back in February of 2024.

So feeling a little bummed that my original design wasn't working, I decided to look at Bing and Copilot. I found a Python library that talked directly to Copilot and was able to generate the articles that I wanted to test with. I will post another page that will have more specific technical details.

The interesting thing is that the CoPilot model that the python library accesses seems to be up to date and does not require a login. You can just query away. So I run the model as a timed job, and the titles you see in each article are the words used against the model generate the content. Then I have an interactive script where I type in thoughts or programming issues I am looking at.

It did not take a lot of python code and Copilot helped me write the script to create the blogger articles. It was amazing to see how little code it actually took to make this work.