BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating personalized stories using OpenAI
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It's even lazier than I imagined. ChatGPT is super popular, I feel like everyone already knows they can just do this themselves without going through Buzzfeed. I don't understand why they think this will be successful.
Also, even the output is not very good. I did this rom-com one (https://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/ai-romcom-quiz), and it seemed to get confused and treat my romantic interest's most attractive feature as my endearing flaw. I don't think they've tested these prompts very much.
Imagine how bad social media already is, AI is going to be infinitely (the actual meaning) worse for society and not just with deepfakes. We are charging deeper into darkness with no idea of how to make a metaphorical lantern.
If the march of AI continues and it will, we are going to see people become entirely lost and detached from reality. This will result in people becoming digital zombies where they are either physically or metaphorically hooked into machines and living an alternative life. In social media, there was at least glimpses of interaction with human beings with some social 'nutrition' or ability to translate to 'real life'. With AI, there is none, it becomes mental junk food that charades as veggies and the barrier of training is so high that bad actors (governments, global corporations, etc) are going to use this position to seed their own thoughts in society without being realized and squeeze free diverse thought out.
In some ways, this is a utopia: dementia, bed-ridden, paraplegic, etc. In other ways, it is hikikomori on mega-steroids.
I am a proponent of the hardware singularity, but I am fearful of what an AI singularity would mean for human beings en masse. We are charging into still uncharted territory and the problem is going to get a lot worse.
You would have to be an idiot to think this grift would save Buzzfeed a low profit generating company SPACed out of low a interest rate economy.
Times will be tough.
I guess that's because the only way Buzzfeed quizzes are positive ROI is if the quiz-maker can design the quiz in like 3 minutes and publish it. Which isn't meant to be a criticism, just a guess at the actual economics of their content writing costs and returns on quiz content.
Or perhaps it's like a hackathon project and just using it to gauge interest before investing more dev time?