Mastodawn

Buzzfeed journey:

- Successful
- Pivoted to GenAI for content
- Laid everybody off
- Now admits it probably can't stay in business

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

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Simon Zerafa (Status:

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@GossiTheDog

How to use AI to speed run to bankruptcy

A new guide from O'Riley? 😂

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Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her)4d ago

@simonzerafa @GossiTheDog

You laugh but Sarah Grey, who led the editing of my 2023 O'Reilly Media book Hacker Culture: A to Z, says Tim O'Reilly makes her and all of his editing staff show him how many ways they're using Gen AI, the more, the better. 🙃🙃🙃

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Simon Zerafa (Status:

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@kimcrawley @GossiTheDog

Perhaps they won't survive long enough for my title suggestion to be published? 🤔🤷‍♂️

Which ironically would justify the titles existence but prevent it's publication thus becoming a logical paradox 😂