Amy25 Mind-blowing Reasons This Fucking Sucks
kieliscalling@lolennui you will not believe number 26 š±
Elon Musk stick@kieliscalling @lolennui Number 17 will blow your mind!
Phil@kieliscalling @lolennui Bravo šš
Heurism@lolennui Dios Mio.
raging_mohawk@lolennui did Buzzfeed ever use humans to write their articles?
Yaoi Box Balloon@raging_mohawk @lolennui Just what I thought.
Roadskater, Ph.D.@monsoonrains @raging_mohawk @lolennui I've never paid attention to Buzzfeed, but some of the stuff that show's up in my Yahoo Finance news feed has long looked like no humans were involved.
uzayran@lolennui always curious to see that these supposed business geniuses are blindly following the same hype cycles as everyone else
Ben from CDS
John Conway@lolennui holy shit this is a bad idea. This needs regulation. Stuff created by robots needs to be labelled.
Timjan
Joe āš
Coles Street Pothole@lolennui Now we just need to create bots to read the stuff and the circle will be complete.
Curious@ColesStreetPothole @lolennui yes but only true since the bots already overthrew management at buzzfeed some time ago.
Await many articles that bots are our friends, bots are good for us and we should share access and control to vital services that the meatbags are dependant on with them immediately...
Await many articles that bots are our friends, bots are good for us and we should share access and control to vital services that the meatbags are dependant on with them immediately...
@curiously @lolennui Bots start paying themselves with crypto theyāve mined, then buy assets such as food commodity futures to gain leverage over meatbags. Pundits declare the future is upon us and welcome our new bot overlords.
Warner Crocker
mark@lolennui [marxism intensifies]
Samhain Night@lolennui So, in other words, Buzzfeed announces theyāll be engaging in plagiarism. Got it.
Zav
Leviticus š³šæ š¤š¤š¤š¤
Phx611@lolennui generally speaking, cutting workers is great for the stock price. What usually sucks for the stock price: hiring workers.
Daryl76679@lolennui With the quality of their content I can honestly understand this decision lol
Gabriel N@lolennui āYou wonāt believe how rewarding it is to quit and sell potted plants insteadā
@lolennui Buzzfeed has content!?
š²š§æ "Max"tš½dšµļøn šš@lolennui BREAKING: Buzzfeed announces it will connect directly to the Torment Nexusā¢ to create content after cutting 12% of its workforce last month.
Its stock has jumped up a staggering 146%.
cuaxolotl
Tergenev has moved@lolennui No, really! I didn't need any more reasons not to read Buzzfeed.
OK, if you insist on giving me more, go ahead.
ATellurian
jensho (she/her)@lolennui fucking hell
My camera shoots fascists@lolennui
Man, if this isn't peak capitalism, I don't know what is.
Man, if this isn't peak capitalism, I don't know what is.
Steve has āļø for brains@lolennui āI invest in buzzed because they can sell ads on content they can now pay micro-pennies for. No humans necessary in the ads-to-eyeballs pipeline now!ā
Timo GrĆ¼nAaand, I just finally removed Buzzfeed from Feedly. Even the occasional halfway serious news piece is no longer worth it.
Canada Man š³ļøāš :3@lolennui even more resons why buzzfeed sucks
chribonn@lolennui I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg and that journalists will eventually follow on the path of loom workers. The outcome I see is that news sites will be able to speew out unimaginable amounts of content so cheaply (yes, and poorly and mostly unverified) that 5 visits will be profitable for the organisation.
Jeroen Postma šŖšŗ@lolennui years ago I fiddled with a browser extension to hide search results that contained clickbait content through some fuzzy matching on things like 'X reasons why ...'
It was rather hacked together and didn't fetch items from the next page which was a bit weird if most of the results were clickbait.
This post made me realise I'd like an extension to blocklist certain domains from my search results.
@lolennui
At the end what will remain are those artsian niche sites that offer investigative content before it makes is was into the mainstream internet (at which point automated processes take over). I imagine that these will only be able to thrive behind paywalls.
Besides on many topics inaccurate information already goes unnoticed.
The Lovely and Talented@lolennui jesus christ
Mary Beth Frezon
Supportive Tree-based lifeform@lolennui
They had a workforce to cut?
They had a workforce to cut?
Brian Perry
Mike 
@lolennui and after a year when people get tired of re-reading the same regurgitated garbage, they'll have to actually think again
Strange Tim@lolennui I already thought most of their content was crap, this just seals the deal.
Chaos Agent Spectre@lolennui To be fair, you could have told me their articles are written by AI already and it wouldn't surprise me.
Either way, we all saw this coming.
Aho@lolennui I doubt it will be articles, seems to be all the "silly things" like quizzes and content presentation based on your previously read articles...
Stock-market value has nothing to do with reality, this will just be another bubble with bad content.
Ton Chrysoprase@lolennui I'm hesitant to ask why... is it because that would imply that for the first time actual intelligence would be used to produce Buzzfeed content, albeit the artificial kind?
Leena@lolennui wait, buzzfeed is still a thing? š®
joeā¢iuculano 
@lolennui
Oh, by the way, guess who's the owner of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT?
That's correct. Elon Musk
Oh, by the way, guess who's the owner of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT?
That's correct. Elon Musk
rood
Pete Wright@lolennui for real though - if i was an SEO/marketing person i'd be sweating. from what i've seen it looks like chatgpt will probably be leveraged here pretty aggressively. next up - wikihow?
PaulM@lolennui
One of the explanations offered for the Fermi Paradox (the sheer scale of the universe implies it is highly probable there are many thousands of intelligent life forms out there, so how come weāve never detected them?) is extinction by poorly designed AI.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_general_intelligence
One of the explanations offered for the Fermi Paradox (the sheer scale of the universe implies it is highly probable there are many thousands of intelligent life forms out there, so how come weāve never detected them?) is extinction by poorly designed AI.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_general_intelligence
horatiorama
Lee Thumwood 
@lolennui Wasn't that long ago I used to watch a TV show on BBC called "Tomorrow's World", where they talked of the technical advancements that awaited us in the future, speculating AI/robots would do most of the work & free up an abundance of leisure time for us. Wishful thinking now.
LG Media
183231bcb@lolennui The NYT Opinion section could do the same thing and no one would notice a difference.
Lena@lolennui stock prices goes up momentarily, spending power goes done, everyone loses
JaneA Kelley (they/them)