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After an embarrassing pivot to AI content, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti says he's had enough of all the ragebait, clickbait, and fake news.

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Jonah Peretti, Who Filled BuzzFeed With AI Slop, Now Says AI Is Threatening Human Agency

By Victor Tangermann

Embattled media company BuzzFeed is selling off First We Feast, the company behind the extremely popular interview show called "Hot Ones."

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BuzzFeed Sells “Hot Ones” as It Pivots to AI-Generated Content

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed's stock has been tumbling for months, and it appears that Buzzy the Robot may not be enough to save it from Nasdaq doom.

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What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone got an AI art generator to copy the illustration style of Tim Burton — and the director himself is having none of it.

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Tim Burton Horrified by AI-Generated Art That Copies His Style

By Noor Al-Sibai

Behold: Botatouille, business genius and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's new recipe-suggesting chatbot. Just one issue...

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BuzzFeed AI Struggles to Recommend Recipe for Laid-Off Journalists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Buzzfeed, Inc. CEO Jonah Peretti just laid out his new AI vision — and it sounds like a plagiarized, choose-your-own-adventure content farm.

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BuzzFeed Says AI Will “Replace the Majority of Static Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BuzzFeed has told investors that its readers spend 40 percent more time with its AI-built quizzes than the traditional ones.

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BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed pledged to do a good job with its AI content. But then it quietly started posting entire articles written by AI.

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BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

BuzzFeed's AI-generated quiz-o-matic just dropped, and reader, there's not a lot of intelligence, artificial or otherwise, going on there.

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BuzzFeed’s AI Quizzes Seem Kind of Broken, Honestly

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

BuzzFeed choosing to bring OpenAI in to beef up its quizzes is certainly not great news in this economy — but it's nowhere near as bad as CNET's AI content.

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Whatever You Think of BuzzFeed’s AI Quizzes, They’re Way Less Horrible Than What CNET Has Been Doing

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the most famous BuzzFeed columnists has some harsh words for CEO Jonah Peretti over his decision to include AI in the site's content operations.

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BuzzFeed Columnist Tells CEO to “Get F*cked” for Move to AI Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fresh off the heels of CNET being outed for using AI to write articles, BuzzFeed has announced that its content machine will soon be assisted by OpenAI.

BuzzFeed Announces Plans to Use OpenAI to Churn Out Content

By Noor Al-Sibai