BuzzFeed is a website famous for its happy clickbait, listicles and quizzes. It even used to have a top-quality news section, BuzzFeed News! And it’s about to go broke. What happened? AI happened. …
  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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.systemsEnglish
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      3 days 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.