[HN Gopher] BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating persona...
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BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating personalized stories
using OpenAI
Author : nickthegreek
Score : 30 points
Date : 2023-02-14 17:12 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (techcrunch.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (techcrunch.com)
| throwuxiytayq wrote:
| Buzzfeed looks extremely shortable right now.
| rngname22 wrote:
| This is a great idea, it's basically curated prompting / curated
| interactive storytelling experiences, but the actual execution
| they demo'd seems really shit?
|
| I guess that's because the only way Buzzfeed quizzes are positive
| ROI is if the quiz-maker can design the quiz in like 3 minutes
| and publish it. Which isn't meant to be a criticism, just a guess
| at the actual economics of their content writing costs and
| returns on quiz content.
|
| Or perhaps it's like a hackathon project and just using it to
| gauge interest before investing more dev time?
| colesantiago wrote:
| Disappointing use case.
|
| You would have to be an idiot to think this grift would save
| Buzzfeed a low profit generating company SPACed out of low a
| interest rate economy.
|
| Times will be tough.
| [deleted]
| hdjjhhvvhga wrote:
| Frankly, I had the impression they had been doing this for
| years...
| dpflan wrote:
| Oh man, someone in an earlier discussion brought up quasi-zombie
| companies trying to ride this hype-cycle wave into relevance (or
| some stock price pumping). I mean adding AI or blockchain to your
| company name or mission for the past years was a little steroid
| shot in the financial casino.
| [deleted]
| jgalt212 wrote:
| Buzzfeed is grasping at straws here. The stock over tripled on
| their OpenAI announcement. That being said, expectations are
| coming back to earth as its given up most of that bump.
|
| https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BZFD?p=BZFD&.tsrc=fin-srch
| burkaman wrote:
| You can try some out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzy
|
| It's even lazier than I imagined. ChatGPT is super popular, I
| feel like everyone already knows they can just do this themselves
| without going through Buzzfeed. I don't understand why they think
| this will be successful.
|
| Also, even the output is not very good. I did this rom-com one
| (https://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/ai-romcom-quiz), and it seemed to
| get confused and treat my romantic interest's most attractive
| feature as my endearing flaw. I don't think they've tested these
| prompts very much.
| joegahona wrote:
| Also lazy: They don't seem to know the definition of the word
| "quiz." They are just taking an old device that worked for them
| a decade ago and Frankensteining on "AI" to try to catch
| lightning in a bottle again. Like watching an aging band switch
| their image/sound to try to regain relevance.
| burkaman wrote:
| Yes it's more like Infinite Mad Libs, but that's probably
| copyrighted.
| [deleted]
| aliqot wrote:
| Of all news outlets that _shouldn 't_ have access to AI, it's the
| Buzzfeeds of the world.
| fathyb wrote:
| I feel the opposite: I'd rather have AI generate pop quizzes
| instead of pieces on geopolitical events. Unfortunately, we're
| likely going to get both.
| madamelic wrote:
| I didn't play with this but having read the press release, this
| makes me wonder how bad AI is going to be for the human psyche.
|
| Imagine how bad social media already is, AI is going to be
| infinitely (the actual meaning) worse for society and not just
| with deepfakes. We are charging deeper into darkness with no idea
| of how to make a metaphorical lantern.
|
| If the march of AI continues and it will, we are going to see
| people become entirely lost and detached from reality. This will
| result in people becoming digital zombies where they are either
| physically or metaphorically hooked into machines and living an
| alternative life. In social media, there was at least glimpses of
| interaction with human beings with some social 'nutrition' or
| ability to translate to 'real life'. With AI, there is none, it
| becomes mental junk food that charades as veggies and the barrier
| of training is so high that bad actors (governments, global
| corporations, etc) are going to use this position to seed their
| own thoughts in society without being realized and squeeze free
| diverse thought out.
|
| In some ways, this is a utopia: dementia, bed-ridden, paraplegic,
| etc. In other ways, it is hikikomori on mega-steroids.
|
| I am a proponent of the hardware singularity, but I am fearful of
| what an AI singularity would mean for human beings en masse. We
| are charging into still uncharted territory and the problem is
| going to get a lot worse.
| stevofolife wrote:
| You talk about the effect and outcome but what's actually "bad"
| about it?
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