Buzzfeed journey:

[raphaelmorgan@disabled.social]

@T2R @GossiTheDog oh well. If we reach a turning point where the only businesses that can stay in business are the ones that aren't being leeched off of by investors and run by capitalists trying to get as much value from the working class as possible without even paying us to work, I'm all for that 🤷 out with the techbros, in with the co-ops

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@GossiTheDog

Praying that many more in on the AI Con will join BuzzFeed in bankruptcy.

Start with:
1. Meta and Zuckerberg
2. Amazon and Bezos
3. Palantir and Thiel
4. Oracle and Larry Ellison
5. Google and Brin
6. Twitter and Elon Musk

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/01/20/billionaires-worth-a-combined-12-trillion-attended-trumps-inauguration-heres-who-was-there-from-musk-to-bezos/

[stefan@gardenstate.social]

@GossiTheDog i find the fist bullet point funny enough. they have been failing for 10 solid years.

[josephdickson@mastodon.social]

@joonq @GossiTheDog if they have I've got NFTs and meme coins they might be interested in. 😉

[wxq4987@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog I thought they had already tanked to be honest. Everytime I hear their name I think of that weird super early Twitter Nokia Lumia Gossip Girl era and think “must be dead like the rest of it.”

XOXO

[shansterable@ohai.social]

@GossiTheDog
LOL

"The brutal reality check seemingly hasn’t put [Buzzfeed CEO] Peretti off from pursuing AI, though. He now says he’s hoping to bring “new AI apps to the market” this year."

[crowjane@mastodon.sdf.org]

@GossiTheDog

Oh look! A Canary in a coal mine.

[lrhodes@merveilles.town]

@GossiTheDog "Produces sub-BuzzFeed level content" is a hell of an endorsement for LLMs.

[faithfulljohn@mastodon.scot]

@GossiTheDog ...and CEO entirely unrepentant - waltzing off still saying "AI" is the answer... 😭🤬🤮

[trzyglow@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog huh, i thought buzzfeed obliterated itself more than a decade ago...

[mostlytato@mstdn.social]

@Npars01 @GossiTheDog
Its a good list. We can only wish. Thoughts and prayers 😂

[wintergr33n@lingo.lol]

@Npars01 @GossiTheDog

Zuck is starting to look like this recurring character from the Onion:

https://theonion.com/poll-nearly-1-in-10-adults-have-postponed-retirement-due-to-healthcare-costs/

Jaxon McCurdy, Curtain Tasseler

(Have to click the link)

Just to be extra clear.

[andymoose@fedi.aiga.rocks]

@GossiTheDog @bobjmsn And doubling down on AI regardless.

[jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt]

@joonq because AI told them not to think about it, and AI knows best, right? Right? @GossiTheDog

[elithebearded@fed.qaz.red]

@GossiTheDog

And that last paragraph...

«The brutal reality check seemingly hasn't put [BuzzFeed CEO Jonah] Peretti off from pursuing AI, though. He now says he's hoping to bring "new AI apps to the market" this year.»

That's some addictive Kool-Aid

[ildiavolorosso@sfba.social]

@GossiTheDog Should we start calling this #slopruptcy ?

[f800gecko@mastodon.online]

@GossiTheDog

Canary, coal mine...

Something-something.

[karma_j@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog

"In 2023, the company’s stock price jumped aggressively, from around $3 per share to north of $15. "

"Reality soon set in. After the initial spike in enthusiasm, the company’s stock took a massive beating; as of this week, its shares are hovering around 70 cents."

#AiSlop #AI #AiGarbage

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai

[64bithero@mstdn.games]

@GossiTheDog this is the future every company is heading toward. But not before mass layoffs

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog LOL