US Patent 11922300 Automated commentary for online content

Techniques for artificially generating commentary for online content including news items. In an aspect, a personification engine incorporates a machine learning model trained using corpus elements comprising an item of online content and relevant commentary. The personification engine is configured to generate relevant commentary when provided with an item of online content such as a news item. In a further aspect, a chatbot engine incorporates a model similarly trained using corpus element comprising a comment and a relevant response. The chatbot engine is configured to generate relevant responses to user comments in the context of a forum or comments section related to the item of online content.