BuzzFeed sells 'Hot Ones' franchise, will focus less on "human-created" content

Re:BuzzFeed sells 'Hot Ones' franchise, will focus less on "... by neverClicking on Friday December 13, 2024 @08:16AM (#42408151)

Their shitty content was created by humans in the first place? Yikes.

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Re:BuzzFeed sells 'Hot Ones' franchise, will focus less on "... by JohnFen on Friday December 13, 2024 @11:02AM (#42409746)

Yeah, my thought was similar: this is the one thing that genAI could replace without a noticeable drop in quality.

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Re:BuzzFeed sells 'Hot Ones' franchise, will focus less on "... by ablation on Friday December 13, 2024 @11:50AM (#42410147)

Maybe the title buried the lede a bit.

Some of BuzzFeed’s investigative journalism was genuinely good. Hot Ones was also great. What they’re doing is divesting themselves of this to focus on spewing gen AI listicles solely to act as bait for their own programmatic ad platform.

It’s a definite step down.

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