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Re:What Happened to People Magazine? by Mathnerd314 on Friday June 28, 2024 @04:09PM (#40824724)
> big publishing conglomerates like Dotdash Meredith have adopted a private equity model that “utilizes public trust in long-standing publications to sell every product under the sun” via Google SEO optimization

Am I the only one who likes this? I was looking for a new smartwatch and had no idea what was out there. I took the top 100 results, which from inspection were clearly all SEO optimized as mentioned, and ran them through ChatGPT to pull out the unique features and most important considerations when choosing a smartwatch. I took the search results again and ran them again through ChatGPT but this time asked it to pull out the different smartwatches and rank them on all the features previously identified. Voila, a detailed comparison table of smartwatches. I went back and checked and no individual site (even what this article says are "actual" review sites like the WireCutter) went into as much depth on features or different models as my table. Like no, I would not read each article by itself, but if life gives you lemons, it's a great time to make lemonade.

Re:What Happened to People Magazine? by thfuran on Friday June 28, 2024 @04:21PM (#40824854)
>Am I the only one who likes this?

I hope so.

Re:What Happened to People Magazine? by TeMPOraL on Friday June 28, 2024 @04:36PM (#40825009)
> Like no, I would not read each article by itself, but if life gives you lemons, it's a great time to make lemonade.

Nobody wants your lemonade. There's too much lemonade.

You're lucky you live in the brief moment where you can take the lemons and use ChatGPT to turn them into combustible lemons, and use them to burn the stupid lemonade stands down. This era will soon end, as businesses adapt to ubiquity of LLMs.

Re:What Happened to People Magazine? by fnord123 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @02:15AM (#40828227)
Indeed. The day that advertising is integrated into LLMs so they only promote sponsored lemonade we'll have to make the LLMs take the lemons back! Get mad! We don't want their damn lemons!
Re:What Happened to People Magazine? by ceejayoz on Friday June 28, 2024 @05:18PM (#40825398)
> Voila, a detailed comparison table of smartwatches.

How did you evaluate its accuracy?

Re:What Happened to People Magazine? by Mathnerd314 on Friday June 28, 2024 @05:55PM (#40825683)
Well, for the top ones I watched the YouTube reviews, they all matched 100% with the objective specs but occasionally the YouTubers disagreed on the subjective qualities.
Re:What Happened to People Magazine? by cogman10 on Friday June 28, 2024 @05:38PM (#40825551)
That's the neat part, you don't!
Re:What Happened to People Magazine? by Mistletoe on Saturday June 29, 2024 @12:57AM (#40827974)
What's wild is you used to be able to just go to a store and touch them and look at them and you'd actually like one a lot more than the others instead of relying on paid reviewer product placement and blog spam results.
Re:What Happened to People Magazine? by tqi on Saturday June 29, 2024 @01:21AM (#40828051)
When was this? my recollection of best buy and circuit city is that they had the same shitty, limited selection of electronics.