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It's buzzfeed. Using AI will probably be an improvement...
How many months until 80% of social media “engagement” is just AI on AI conversations? >

I swear twitter is just a bunch of bots swearing at each other >

I wonder the same about reddit tbh. >

How do you do, fellow human >

Is this all just generated when I click more comments? >

ITT: philosophy of solipsism discovered >

Huh, thought it was just me thinking that >

Maybe it is. >

Maybe it isn't. >

Top ten reasons why AI is here to stay. Number 3 shocked me. >

Me to ChatGPT:

Please write an article in the style of Buzzfeed entitled "Top ten reasons why AI is here to stay. Number 3 shocked me."

ChatGPT:

"Top Ten Reasons Why AI is Here to Stay: Number 3 Shocked Me!"  
Accuracy: AI algorithms can analyze and process large amounts of data with high accuracy, making it an indispensable tool in various industries.  
Efficiency: AI reduces the time and cost of performing routine tasks, freeing up humans to focus on more creative and innovative work.  
Creativity: AI can now generate creative works such as music, art, and writing, blurring the line between human and machine creativity.  
Personalization: AI can personalize experiences for users by learning their preferences and habits, leading to more meaningful interactions.  
Healthcare: AI is revolutionizing the healthcare industry by aiding in disease diagnosis, personalized treatments, and drug development.  
Customer Service: AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants are providing instant and efficient customer support, improving customer satisfaction.  
Automation: AI is automating tasks across various industries, leading to increased productivity and reduced errors.  
Predictive Analytics: AI can analyze data and make predictions about future trends and events, providing valuable insights for businesses and governments.  
Safety: AI is improving safety in various industries by monitoring for potential hazards and alerting humans to take action.  
Advancement of Science: AI is assisting in scientific research by processing data, making predictions, and discovering new patterns and relationships.  
AI is changing the way we live and work, and it's here to stay. From improving accuracy and efficiency to revolutionizing industries and advancing science, AI has the potential to bring about positive change in the world. Who would have thought that machines could be creative and make such a huge impact on our lives? Number 3 may have shocked us, but it's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the capabilities of AI.

Me to ChatGPT:

Not wacky enough. Please write it so that it's wacky, zany, and fun to read for today's fun and individualistic millennial.

ChatGPT:

"10 Mind-Blowing Reasons Why AI is the Real Deal and Here to Stay! #3 Will Make Your Jaw Drop!"  
Accuracy on Fleek: AI algorithms are like superhumans, analyzing mountains of data with pinpoint accuracy - we're talking 99.9% and beyond!  
Time-saving Ninjas: Say goodbye to boring, repetitive tasks and hello to free time! AI can handle it all and make your life a whole lot easier.  
Creativity Unleashed: Hold on to your hats because AI can now create art, music, and even write, making us question what it means to be human. #mindblown  
Personalized Perfection: AI knows you better than you know yourself! By learning your habits and preferences, it can personalize experiences like never before.  
Healthcare Heroes: AI is saving lives by assisting in disease diagnosis, creating personalized treatments, and even developing new drugs. #healthcarerevolution  
Customer Service Dreams: Chatbots and virtual assistants powered by AI are here to serve, providing instant and efficient customer support with a smile.  
Automation A-game: AI is taking over tedious tasks across industries, increasing productivity and reducing errors, it's like having a personal robot!  
Future-Telling Wizards: AI can predict the future with spooky accuracy, providing valuable insights for businesses and governments.  
Safety Squad: AI is keeping us safe by monitoring potential hazards and alerting us to take action. #safetyfirst  
Science Savants: AI is lending a hand in scientific research by processing data, making predictions and discovering new patterns and relationships. #sciencemadefun  
AI is the real deal and it's here to stay, making our lives easier, more creative, and safer. With its accuracy, efficiency, and endless capabilities, it's no wonder AI is taking the world by storm. From healthcare heroes to creativity unleashed, we can't wait to see what the future holds. And that jaw-dropping #3? Well, you'll just have to read on to find out!

Yeet, as the kids say.

EDIT: Yes, this is actually from ChatGPT for everyone asking. No, these are not selected outputs - I only gave it two prompts, once each, and these are the only responses it generated.
It took appx. 10 seconds to generate both of them. It took me longer to write the prompts. >

Is this for real? Haven’t touched it yet but it seems horrifying and amazing at the same time >

Very real. I've been nessing with it for the past few days and it's kind of terrifying how good it is. It sometimes shows it's flaws though, it's given me incorrect answers several times, it has trouble with more niche topics. Really all it does is read websites and form data into coherent sentences. In one case i actually was able to tell the exact website it had pulled an incorrect answer from. >

Actually it doesn’t read websites, ChatGPT is fully offline and only has data up to mid 2022. They likely trained it on large swathes of the internet, probably including all of Wikipedia, news outlets, and sites that compile things like user manuals (it can be very helpful when learning a new software!) >

That's interesting. I'm pretty sure i know what website it was trained for the response i got then lol >


Humans would still have their role in providing “cultural currency” and “inspired prompts”

I have no fucking clue what cultural currency means. >

Feeding in data for things like "On TikTok mascara means sex" I assume >

WTF? I can’t be that behind with this shit at late 20s. >

Yes. Yes you are. Signed, a 37 year old woman with a 6 year old that knows internet better than me. >

That's a bit of a problem and I hope you rectify that for their sake, I'm sure it's at least partially a joke but lol >

Yes partially a joke. My 6 year old is not freely roaming the internet. lol. She does play Minecraft and watches endless YouTube videos about it. >

And nobody notices... >

Isn’t their entire job to copy and paste ask reddit threads anyway? >

And insert few puns in animal related articles >

They're going to need AI to read the articles too since no one reads Buzzfeed. >

I don't think people realize how many jobs AI will be able to replace >

Yeah, the fact is the vast majority of people in the creative cultural industries are doing grunt work - the copywriters, bloggers, elevator music composers, motel artists. When critics point out AI is still far from able to create original masterpieces, that’s almost besides the point. Sure, they are not going to be setting cultural trends or crafting iconic pieces anytime soon but most humans are not doing that either - and the market for commodified cultural products is much larger. That market and the jobs in it are going the way of AI. >

The real interesting part is where this is going to be done short-sidedly and where it's going to be done intelligently. Because on a whole bunch of these feelings those are the places where the junior people break in. If all those junior people are replaced by AI where are those junior people going to learn?
Not a good solution is hey what are we produced more of X because now we're able to do it and some of it will be lower quality because it's done by juniors and then they will be able to level up their skills much more rapidly and will have a higher overall content and will have higher overall quality. 
Put in practice I suspect we will have lower >

*short sightedly
As in, without looking far ahead for potential negative consequences. >

Voice to text did a pretty good job if that was the only error huh. >

A damn fine job >

How can we tell the difference? >

There will be a drastic reduction in typos and grammatical errors >

With a possible increase in factual content. >

ML bots trained to produce the most outrage in readers to drive clicks could fight this notion >

I’ll bet money that’s the direction it goes too >

I get that's it's Buzzfeed and all, but seriously, this is fucked up. The fact that 180 writers can be replaced by a computer program is disturbing. What happens when other writing jobs get replaced? Employers don't give a shit about the quality of your work as long as they get revenue, so it's not implausible that this won't stop here. Will it be limited to news websites? It's not like publishers print books out of a love for the arts. They're looking for a paycheck just like the rest of us. What happens when most writers are replaced? Will it become all of them? Will culture stagnate for the rest of history while algorithms take over everything, just so publishers don't have to pay an actual human being?
Think about all that before you laugh at the funny click bait website doing this. This could be very bad for consumers and employees. >

That's "progress" for you. Cars completely killed the buggy crop industry used for horse-drawn taxies and carts. But then created brand new assembly lines in the motor industry. Which was then replaced by robots.
Thirty years and robots will be largely replacing wait staff in restaurants and truckers. In fourty, even the cook staff might be largely replaced with fancy 3D printers that can make food. >

It's not exactly the same thing when we're talking about writing (a form of self expression) and manual labor. Nobody actually wants to be a factory worker, they do it because it's a job with a very low bar to entry.
Creative expression is supposed to be something that is worth pursuing in itself. If machines take over that as well, what is left that makes life worth living? Is our purpose merely to produce wealth for people above us? Are we all just interchangeable cogs in a machine that makes profit? I couldn't live in a world where art is considered obsolete. There has to be something that gives this miserable existence meaning!
And yes, I realize that this is Buzzfeed we're talking about, but if you honestly think capitalists aren't salivating over the thought of extending this to other places, then I've got a bridge to sell you. >

It's not different at all. 
People had a job in a field, and technology replaced them.
The difference is people just assumed that some fields would be safe from automation. But it's not like people guessed assembly lines would be replaced either: at one time, those jobs were thought to be safe.  
For the longest time it seemed like craftsmen would be safe, and now 3D printing is threatening their jobs and giving work to people capable of rendering. People thought visual artists and writers would be safe. But we're likely a couple short decades away from AI-written movies and TV shows.
Heck, within our lifetime we'll probably be able to AI render semi-realistic TV shows based on old actors, replicating their voices and faces. We'll be able to have brand new episodes of the The Next Generation or Friends entirely done by AI or autonomous recreations of lost episodes of Doctor Who. >

It's different from a moral standpoint. That's what I'm getting at. Humans should have this one thing to ourselves because automated culture is too depressing for words. I don't want to live in a world like that. I refuse to live in a world like that. There has to be something that we have that is irreplaceable, or else why even exist at all? >

Moral how?
Why is it more immoral to replace writers than assembly line workers or truck drivers? >

I'm of the moral philosophy that defines an action as moral if it increases the amount of happiness in the world, and immoral if the opposite is true. As stated previously, nobody actually wants to do manual labor. Art and culture are things that:


People create because they want to, for it's own sake.


Serves the function of making life less miserable.


Therefore to diminish our ability to create art is, when viewed under this framework, a fundamentally evil act. Of course, since philosophy is subjective, there are other ways we can define morality. This is simply the way I see it. >

How does it diminish people's ability to make art? There's not a finite amount of art in the world. 
And people's happiness depends on being able to feed their families. Replacing truck drivers with AI cars means they can't do their job. Wouldn't that affect far more people than eliminating writers? >

Because as long as we're still living under capitalism, artists and writers still need to pay for their basic needs. Capitalism itself is the root cause of a lot of unhappiness, so I'm sure you can do the math. 
The idea we have to work for a living implies that by default, we don't deserve to live. If technology were to replace all jobs except the arts while also fulfilling our basic needs, that would be a perfect society. Instead, they're making AI to replace the arts and we still need to work. >

But then the problem isn’t AI but the lack of Universal Basic Income. Which is a problem regardless of whether AI replaces artists or not.
If anyone just sat around and made art, wouldn’t that diminish the value of art? The value of art is its scarcity. Who would buy art if anyone is producing their own?
And if people create art for arts sake, they don’t need to be paid. The point of making art is the creation. It doesn’t need to be reinforced by capitalism. Isn‘t that just “selling out” and making art to make money and not for the joy of creation? >

AI written content is technically against Google's terms of service, and there are apparently watermarks in the sentence structure of chatGPT produced content. 
While google may not be able to determine what is ai right now, it might in the future and be detrimental to these articles from an SEO perspective. Although editing the articles (which I assume they will be doing) could take care of this. Will be interesting to see how they perform. I don't know how much BuzzFeed relies on organic search traffic compared to social, though >

If too many media companies start doing this, then Google will just change the terms of service anyway to allow it >

They're stealing the productivity gains of technology again. >

Yup. Right to the top, exacerbating income inequality even further. 
Expect riots to increase >

That's why they pay for the police. 
Oh wait... WE pay for the police. >

I got the chance to work with one of these text generation AIs just prior to their commercial-use launch. It was great for workflow. 
You could put an idea in and it would generate 3-5  topical outlines. You could expand each outline in a paragraph generator or drop the list into a blog generator. The articles wrote themselves in about 5 minutes, and advanced generators included source links! 
There were headline generators, technical writing generators, all types of shenanigans could be had. They still need to be checked for content-awareness and mild editing but it was all better than a generic buzzfeed story. >

Give it about five years, every major tech company now commiting billions into R&D to capture the market early, grad students in comp sci building their version of ChatGPT hoping to found the next billion dollar tech company, and businesses salivating at the thought of reducing costs.  This will easily replace most white collar work.  Especially IT. >

As someone who works in IT (for a non-IT international company), I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted.  Maybe your timeline is too fast (or slow?), but I'm honestly worried about the end result.  My company already offshores at least 80% of the IT jobs to cut costs drastically.  My company knows it needs an IT footprint in the US, so I don't see them ever offshoring or replacing all of us with AI.  But for companies that haven't offshored their IT departments yet, they may see AI as a potential alternative.  Either way, IT jobs aren't going to disappear overnight, but I anticipate that pay will stagnate or decline in the years ahead. >

Funny thing is AI could replace a lot of Execs too. >

AI could hardly do worse than some of the emotional ego-driven execs I've worked under. >

Oh look it's the thing that people on Reddit told me would never happen. >

r/aboringdystopia >

And somehow Buzzfeed finds a way to get worse. 
Seriously, if politicians are worth any kind of a damn this needs to be regulated now before it gets out of hand. Either that or give us all universal basic income so that when we do lose our jobs to AI we can still afford to eat and have a home >

They'll do their usual nothing until the pitchforks come for them. Too late then, of course. >

People better start pushing for UBI >

Journalists should have learned to code before code learned to journalism. >

I thought all those thinly-veiled affiliate link articles WERE written by A.I. >

Really.  There are so many sites that have felt like robots wrote the articles for the last 5-7 years at least.  Just "word salad" articles that don't actually SAY anything. >

I wonder if Buzzfeed expects me to read their shit when I could just have an AI generate me articles on topics that personally interest me? >

Make fun all you want, but they did receive a Pulitzer at one point, so it's pretty sad to see their actual journalism go away. Though it's been happening for awhile. I think they disbanded their news section awhile ago so now it's all culture click bait anyhow. >

Buzzfeed News was (until recently) a pretty reputable source, they made a great piece outing John Krisfaluci being a pedophile.
Now Buzzfeed, the regular site… has always been and always will be trash. However, the clickbait thing is because news are not a profitable business and since the death of print has been hard to monetize. >

I’m just gonna say it. If society is to prosper, we need to outlaw commercial AI use. Jobs are being purged and it’s already accelerating from the look of things. Unless these rich fucks cutting costs (jobs) plan on distributing wealth some other way, they need to cut the bullshit before the economy crashes. Jobless people are not consumers. >

This is it. They are getting rid of jobs while providing fuck all for people to fall back on. >

Wealth inequality is an extremely good way to foment civil unrest.
See also the French Revolution. >

I would rather it not get to that stage tbh >

I'm assumed AI had been writing their articles for years... >

What? They weren’t already doing that?? >

AI and the Future of Content Creation
In recent years, the rise of artificial intelligence has been changing the way we work and live. In many industries, AI is being utilized to automate tasks and streamline processes, leading to increased efficiency and cost savings. The field of content creation is no exception, and the use of AI in this area has been growing rapidly.
One of the most notable impacts of AI in content creation has been the potential for automation. With advanced natural language processing (NLP) capabilities, AI can now generate articles, news reports, and other types of content in real-time, without the need for human intervention. This has led to the dismissal of many human employees who were previously involved in the content creation process.
The impact of this shift has been significant, but it’s important to consider both the positive and negative aspects. On one hand, AI has made it possible for companies to produce high-quality content at a much faster pace and lower cost, which can be beneficial for businesses and consumers alike. Additionally, AI can help to ensure that the content produced is accurate, consistent, and free of errors, which can be a challenge with human-generated content.
However, it’s also important to recognize the negative impacts that this shift can have on the workforce. The dismissal of employees can have a significant impact on individuals and communities, and it’s important to consider how this transition can be managed in a way that is fair and respectful to those affected.
Despite these challenges, the use of AI in content creation is likely to continue growing in the future. As AI technology improves and becomes more widely adopted, it’s possible that more tasks and jobs will be automated, leading to further dismissals and changes in the workforce.
In conclusion, while the use of AI in content creation has the potential to bring many benefits, it’s important to be aware of the potential consequences and to manage the transition in a way that is responsible and ethical. As AI technology continues to evolve, it will be important to keep a close eye on the impact it has on the workforce and to work towards finding solutions that balance the benefits and risks of this technology.
​

Query: write an article about the dismissal of 180 employees  since now the ai writes the articles >

I for one am shocked to learn that human beings were actually writing that pointless trash beforehand >

It's about time we got better content from them. >

Soon we will let AI manage our social media accounts . It will be  a social media with no one on it >

What can go wrong?  Soon everyone is a Nazi! >

Pretty sure this is the canary in the coal mine. >

They didn't already do that? >

99 WAYS THIS ARTICLE WILL SHOCK YOU. #54 IS WOAH >

Yeah this will be no loss - the AI will trawl Reddit for content to repackage.  It was essentially script work already >

Watch out, you may be quoted in the next Buzzfeed article >

Well I mean buzz feed can’t really get any worse as it is >

So they’re going to program the AI to grab Reddit comments and make listicles, rather than pay a person to do it? >

Buzzfeed's quality can't possibly get lower than before they started using AI. >

I mean most of buzzfeed is just shitting out copy and paste listicles on the Kardashians, seems perfect for AI >

I thought AI was supposed to be advancing, not regressing. >

Oddly after switching to AI generated articles Buzzfeed might sound MORE human than before. >

On one hand, this is one of those dystopian things that spell the approachig end of human labor. On the other hand, AI is about on par with buzzfeed quality so it's not like anything is changing >

I doubt anyone will notice a difference >

9/10 of their “articles” are just r/askreddit scrapes anyway >

Top ten articles written by AI, number 8 will surprise you >

Holy heck, I called it >

Since no human actually read Buzzfeed, that makes sense. >

There will come a time when Twitter and similar sites will have an indicator next to your username, much like the verified account tick mark, indicating whether you're a human or AI. >

Maybe people will then actually read buzzfeed. They need to write an article on 10 reasons why an AI will do a better job, and why number 4 will shock you. >

TIL: Buzzfeed still exists >

I thought their articles were already written by robots... >

I mean, write three semi-coherent sentences, then insert a viagra add, followed by a randomly moving red button to trigger the next popup then….rinse and repeat?
How hard can this be? >

"Top 10 Ways to KILL ALL HUMANS" >

Pathetic >

Ryan and Shane picked a good time to get out. >

Aww look they taught a robot to copy and paste from Reddit >

That just prove how low their standards are. >

As if Buzzfeed wasnt already trashland. >

Quality will improve. >

Buzzfeed is, was, and always will be trash. Most we can hope for is that they get enough negative publicity from this that they tank. Doubtful.
Buzzfeed in a nutshell: Take a sentence worth of content recovered from a google search that's been bloated into a whole "article." Rinse and repeat. >

Articles to promote and distract-from their corporate sponsors >

Oh yeah, can't forget that. Guess we got some Buzzfeed fanbois in the house giving the downvotes. Must be bitter cause their favorite writers of "Top ten embarassing screenshots," got fired. How can such profound writing be replaced by a mindless bot? >

I hope AI can create those awesome unboxing review videos. Where they tell me how great the product is as they take it out of the Amazon packet. And then the vague technical specifications they read off the box as they gush about the amazing packaging and plastic wrapping.... >

Is everyone missing a chromosome now. >

TBF those people used to work at Buzzfeed, and the ones making this decision still work at Buzzfeed. >

well they're still ******** >

The journalistic integrity will probably improve TBH >

Oh, good. It's about time Buzzfeed tried to put out a quality product.