Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform
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This would be a great fit for a r/NotTheOnion type of sub.
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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
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Artificial Intelligence is dead, long live Artificial Intelligence
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The issue with Artificial Intelligence is that it still doesn’t exist and everyone is pretending it does.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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So tight it resembles a sphincter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In case you needed more proof that AI is a bubble.
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AI exists. Bots in video games are AI. Detecting patterns using machine learning is AI.
What you're referring to is AGI, artifical general intelligence, which indeed doesn't exist yet.
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It was already there two above this one in my all feed.
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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.
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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.
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How do you ruin something that was bad to begin with?
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"ruined buzzfeed" implies that buzzfeed was, at one point, not ruined.
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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
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Ask Elon, he's devoted his entire life to this very endeavor
