Comment on Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform

jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Tbf it was half decent when they still had Buzzfeed News, which was actual journalism. They shut that down in 2023 though.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Buzzfeed News was half decent but it doesn’t make up for how trash the rest of Buzzfeed was at the same time…

    12 Ways Buzzfeed Made The Internet Worse

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    • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s also a fair point. The other side was always listicles and quizzes and celebrity gossip which is never high quality. Now it’s just the slop + AI.

      Regurgitated articles from 4 years ago still pop up on my Apple News app (I only use the free stuff though). They can’t even make new content.

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