Enter the Robot Journalist - Users’ perceptions of automated content
▻http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2014.883116
Perhaps the most interesting result in the study is that there are no (with one exception) significant differences in how the two texts [software vs. journalist] are perceived by the respondents. The lack of difference may be seen as an indicator that the software is doing a good job, or it may indicate that the journalist is doing a poor job—or perhaps both are doing a good (or poor) job?