Only two words I can think of to say to this: Fucking lmao.

Wait I got two more: Good riddance.

Let's hope this trend continues for all brands that do this.

The only good thing to come from AI.

The brutal reality check seemingly hasn’t put Peretti off from pursuing AI, though. He now says he’s hoping to bring “new AI apps to the market” this year.

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...

I don’t get it. How can you even tell the difference?

womp womp

They're still around? I thought they'd long went bankrupt.

DIE! DIIIIEEEEE!!!!!

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Karma fr.

They still exist?

I'm surprised they weren't struggling sooner given their reputation for putting out non-AI slop.

The AI started writing beyond their primary audience's reading range /s

I mean... fuck AI, of course, but also fuck BuzzFeed?

Nobody saw that coming after they fired their reporters and writers. Nobody.

They died the moment they killed Buzzfeed News.

AI finally did something useful!

And nothing of value was lost

All I am hearing is AI is finding efficiencies by getting rid of the overhead of running a business. Soon they won't have to have any staff. Another win for AI.

BuzzFeed still exists?

buzzfeed still around? when thier major "producers/content creators" left like 10 years ago and were complaining on thier "youtube why i left buzzfeed" because they were just there to push out slop after slop thats when the downfall started. they have been largely supplanted by "influencers" reporting on the news.

Get rekt

womp womp

I thought this company disappeared in like 2018?

Who?

I’ve always hated BuzzFeed since their inception.

They already shut down their news department; there isn't anything of use left there.