Roboterjournalismus

Starting from Rudolf Augstein's adage to “tell it like it is”, the author examines whether legal standards change when an algorithm tells it like it is, rather than a human being. The work addresses communications and legal scholars, but also journalists and software companies, who programme journalism bots. In addition to solutions for robotic journalism, such as liability, attribution, transparency, and whether and to what extent it is sufficient to plant a “copyright seed2 – a software – whose output – a journalistic text – cannot be absolutely predicted by humans for copyright protection of computer-generated texts, the author also deals with fundamental questions of (media) constitutional law. These include the derivation of the principle of diversity of opinion as an independent constitutional principle that stands alongside (media) fundamental rights with an independent guarantee content (“media diversity guarantee law”).