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Buzzfeed is already using GPT to generate listicles and quizzes:

https://futurism.com/buzzfeed-publishing-articles-by-ai

This announcement is about Buzzfeed News, the investigative division which was already facing cuts last year:

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/buzzfeed-news-editors-...

That is even worse.

Journalists still replaced and offshored to AI generated articles and clickbait. What would take 15 journalists would now take one manager to generate these articles and quizzes. It doesn't really help them at all.

Out goes investigative journalists, in comes AI generated click bait at scale.

Manager? A script and a chronjob should cover it.

The only thing that comes to mind is that the journalists should probably learn to code.

I don't care who does it, same shit either way.

That's the point. The "data science" enshittening won the battle over real journalism.

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