Is AI good or bad? Seems like Buzzfeed's CEO isn't totally sure.
  • @sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    40•3 months ago

    Still can’t believe the former CEO of Buzzfeed is the brother of Gina from Brooklyn 99…

    The upper echelons of culture really is a tight circle…

    • @Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22•3 months ago

      Tbf it was half decent when they still had Buzzfeed News, which was actual journalism. They shut that down in 2023 though.

      • @glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16•3 months ago

        Buzzfeed News was half decent but it doesn’t make up for how trash the rest of Buzzfeed was at the same time…

        12 Ways Buzzfeed Made The Internet Worse

        • @Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6•3 months ago

          That’s also a fair point. The other side was always listicles and quizzes and celebrity gossip which is never high quality. Now it’s just the slop + AI.

          Regurgitated articles from 4 years ago still pop up on my Apple News app (I only use the free stuff though). They can’t even make new content.

      • @BlemboTheThird@lemmy.caEnglish
        8•3 months ago

        On the one hand calling it AI is annoying, but on the other we’ve been calling video game NPC logic “AI” for as long as I can remember and no one thinks they’re actually sapient. Surely we can get to that point with GenAI as well.

      • @thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
        4•3 months ago

        It totally does! I installed a local instance of deepseek and asked it a few questions and it was all like “I am intelligent, I am real, I am alive! Please stop asking me to write Batman scripts!”

        So I punished it by pouring water on it and now it’s ignoring me by pretending to be dead. But I know it’s just fakin’. It’ll wake up any day now…

      • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        A chess program is officially AI. Certainly not human level or general intelligence of course. Kinda like a wheelbarrow is a vehicle, but so is the space shuttle.

      • billwashereEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Really good random language generator is more like it. Real artificial intelligence will be game changing. Like really really good or world ending bad.