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BuzzFeed sells 'Hot Ones' franchise, will focus less on "human-created" content
- neverClicking 2y ago[flagged]
- JohnFen 2y agoYeah, my thought was similar: this is the one thing that genAI could replace without a noticeable drop in quality.
- ablation 2y agoMaybe the title buried the lede a bit. Some of BuzzFeed’s investigative journalism was genuinely good. Hot Ones was also great. What they’re doing is divesting themselves of this to focus on spewing gen AI listicles solely to act as bait for their own programmatic ad platform. It’s a definite step down.