• @[email protected]
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    585 days ago

    Still can’t believe the former CEO of Buzzfeed is the brother of Gina from Brooklyn 99…

    The upper echelons of culture really is a tight circle…

    • @Broadfern
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      375 days ago

      So tight it resembles a sphincter.

  • katy ✨
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    144 days ago

    “ruined buzzfeed” implies that buzzfeed was, at one point, not ruined.

  • @jqubed
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    385 days ago

    How could BuzzFeed be ruined when it was always bad?

    • @Broadfern
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      315 days ago

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

      • @glimse
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        215 days 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

        • @Broadfern
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          65 days 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.

  • Flax
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    115 days ago

    How do you ruin something that was bad to begin with?

      • Flax
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        23 days ago

        I unironically supported Elon buying twitter. It really needed to die, and elon coming along to finish it off was it excellent.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 days ago

      I mean, haven’t they had a really decent actual news outlet for a while though? I remember buzz feed breaking some pretty big stories and had really great investigative pieces done some years back

    • @jaybone
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      25 days ago

      It was already there two above this one in my all feed.

    • @monkeyslikebananas2
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      215 days ago

      The issue with Artificial Intelligence is that it still doesn’t exist and everyone is pretending it does.

      • billwashere
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        11 day ago

        Really good random language generator is more like it. Real artificial intelligence will be game changing. Like really really good or world ending bad.

      • @[email protected]
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        105 days ago

        On the one hand calling it AI is annoying, but on the other we’ve been calling video game NPC logic “AI” for as long as I can remember and no one thinks they’re actually sapient. Surely we can get to that point with GenAI as well.

      • @[email protected]
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        AI exists. Bots/NPCs in video games are AI. Detecting patterns to alert on anomalies using machine learning is AI. OCR software (converting a scanned page to text) is AI as a lot of them use neural networks now.

        What you’re referring to is AGI, artificial general intelligence, which indeed doesn’t exist yet.

      • @[email protected]
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        65 days ago

        It totally does! I installed a local instance of deepseek and asked it a few questions and it was all like “I am intelligent, I am real, I am alive! Please stop asking me to write Batman scripts!”

        So I punished it by pouring water on it and now it’s ignoring me by pretending to be dead. But I know it’s just fakin’. It’ll wake up any day now…

      • @SlopppyEngineer
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        55 days ago

        A chess program is officially AI. Certainly not human level or general intelligence of course. Kinda like a wheelbarrow is a vehicle, but so is the space shuttle.

      • Echo Dot
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        25 days ago

        The issue is they’re not being honest about its limited capabilities. They keep telling everyone that we’re going to have a Sci-Fi utopian future in 6 months. They’ve been saying that for 3 years.

  • Echo Dot
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    65 days ago

    Imagine being known as the guy who “ruined” it. That must have really taken some effort. It’s like trying to come up with a version of hell for pyromediacs.

  • @[email protected]
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    Pasty tech bros continue to push dumb shit forward, ruin companies, out a lot of people out of work then do something else. The definition of fail upwards.