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> CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it. It seems like the leaders of all of these online platforms are going to just bury t
by dcchambers 2y ago
> CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it.
It seems like the leaders of all of these online platforms are going to just bury their heads in the sand and pretend that this massive problem isn't one.
This AI trend is absolutely going to destroy many (most?) of these companies. For better or worse, the new age of the internet is already here.
- yungporko 2y agois there anything they can realistically do?
- CharlieDigital 2y agoMaybe this is just a Band-Aid, but Medium has a "boost" mechanism. I'm not sure of the exact machinations, but the times that my posts have been boosted, it's always been by a publication on Medium where a human editor has read my content and 1) asked that I submit to their publication and 2) submitted to Medium for boosting. Seems like this type of filter -- as long as they actually keep humans in the loop -- can potentially work to keep high quality content more visible.
- kelvinjps10 2y agoThat's exactly what they are doing
- yifanl 2y agoThe same thing Amazon would have to do to detract fake listings: Add friction. Of course, even mentioning the f-word is forbidden, so...
- tim333 2y agoThey could use an algo to rate for AI slopness and de-rank that in search and the like.
- caekislove 2y agoWhy wouldn't they? They've spent the last decade pretending that the clickbots sustaining the internet ad model are no big deal and apparently the market agrees with them!
- Lasher 2y agoI'm a paying member of Medium although, due to time constraints, I only really read the articles in the Weekly Digest emails at the weekend. I have noticed a lot of these articles that just make no sense at all starting to appear in my weekly email to the point that I probably won't renew next year if it stays this way, so it isn't just "nobody reading them".