BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI
BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI
Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Was recently thinking this might happen to Pinterest, too. Their webpage was never great, with how it tried to prevent you from downloading images, when that was literally the only reason I would ever visit. But at least, they did have a big database of images and a decent algorithm for detecting visual similarity.
And well, they have an even bigger database of images now, but the majority of it is not worth looking at, because the images are not real. I don't bother visiting anymore, because you can't find anything worthwhile on there anymore.
They did announce going all-in on AI at some point, but I don't know, if they actually decided to generate images themselves. That seems almost too stupid.
Could be that they have some financial incentives for folks posting and that alone lead to tons of AI-generated uploads. I don't actually know how Pinterest was supposed to work...
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