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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. Peretti, who proudly announced in May 2023…
Cold Product Embattled media company BuzzFeed is selling off First We Feast, the company behind the extremely popular interview show called “Hot Ones,” for $82.5 million to save itself from…
Fresh on the heels of announcing that he would be using AI to replace static content — and thus, re-engineer BuzzFeed-owned sites into a new kind of automated content farm…
The breadth of BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti’s AI aspirations just got a lot clearer — and if he has it his way, AI use at the viral publisher won’t be…
AI Supremacy The struggling media company BuzzFeed told investors this week that its readers spend 40 percent more time with its AI-facilitated quizzes than traditional ones, Bloomberg reports. While we…
To greatly paraphrase Tolstoy, you can explain anything to a complete ding dong if they know nothing about the topic, but you’ll fail to explain it to the greatest minds…
When I pitch, or start to pitch an article to any publication it signals an approximately 80% chance of mass layoffs. That happened with Buzzfeed News. BuzzFeed News is shutting…
Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard. “I think that there are two…
Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard. “I think that there are two…