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BuzzFeed goes AI — then it goes broke (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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go slop, go flop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwt54FUmKLI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260326-buzzfeed-goes-ai-then-it-goes-broke - podcast

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It even used to have a top-quality news section, BuzzFeed News!

Azeen Ghorayshi made her name reporting at Buzzfeed News about sexual harassment in science... and then she became one of the New York Times's professional transphobes.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I know people were impressed by some of the journalism they did but I could never take them seriously when it was mixed in with all their brain-rotting listicles

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

It felt very much like the devil's bargain of online media. Like, you can have your prestige journalism as a treat, but only if the slop flows fast enough that we need clout more than eyeballs.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Peretti told SxSW about AI:

Using AI is the way of connecting people, building community around these pillars of culture, and taste, and community.

It seems like his speech was written by aI

[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Good.