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BuzzFeed Announces Plans to Use OpenAI to Churn Out Content
CNET Effect Fresh off the heels of CNET being outed for using artificial intelligence to write articles, BuzzFeed has announced that its content machine will soon be assisted by ChatGPT creator OpenAI....
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BuzzFeed Columnist Tells CEO to "Get F*cked" for Move to AI Content
Get Bent One of BuzzFeed's most famous writers has some harsh words for CEO Jonah Peretti's decision to integrate AI into the site's content operations. "I’m normally in the business of giving...
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Whatever You Think of BuzzFeed's AI Quizzes, They're Way Less Horrible Than...
As if the journalism industry wasn't already troubled enough, it's been wracked with turmoil in recent weeks as media outlets have started using artificial intelligence to beef up their content...
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BuzzFeed's AI Quizzes Seem Kind of Broken, Honestly
When BuzzFeed announced last month that it would be integrating OpenAI's text generating technology into its iconic quizzes, we were intrigued. Not all BuzzFeed writers were thrilled with the...
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BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes
Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard. "I think that there are two paths for...
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BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees
AI Supremacy The struggling media company BuzzFeed told investors this week that its readers spend 40 percent more time with its AI-facilitated quizzes than traditional ones, Bloomberg reports. While...
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BuzzFeed Says AI Will “Replace the Majority of Static Content”
The breadth of BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's AI aspirations just got a lot clearer — and if he has it his way, AI use at the viral publisher won't be limited to time-killing quizzes and bottom-tier...
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BuzzFeed AI Struggles to Recommend Recipe for Laid-Off Journalists
Fresh on the heels of announcing that he would be using AI to replace static content — and thus, re-engineer BuzzFeed-owned sites into a new kind of automated content farm — BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti...
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Tim Burton Horrified by AI-Generated Art That Copies His Style
Soul Searching Someone got an AI art generator to crib Tim Burton's instantly-recognizable style — and the famed gothy director himself is having none of it. In an interview with The Independent,...
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What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse
The ur-viral content site BuzzFeed has often served as a trailblazer — and sometimes a canary in the coal mine — for the digital media industry. Now, its struggle to succeed after a pivot to artificial...
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