Wait yahoo still exists?
Yup. Everytime I need to test an internet connection I go to Yahoo cause I know the User wasn’t there so no cache version.
I don’t know how they’re structured / what they really do as a company now, but they do still seem to have a well-regarded news division (or, they at least aggregate quality content).
Well, they used to until I read this. Once they throw this AI nonsense into it, I’m bailing.
Every time I end up on Yahoo News, it’s an article that’s been republished from somewhere else. I have no idea what their business model is. Ads, I assume.
Keep AI out of the news. Sigh.
It’s not all bad. Artifact uses “AI” to change clickbait titles into more descriptive ones for example.
Still a slippery-slope, IMO.
When something (news) is, by nature, designed to inform you of the current state of reality, introducing any process that hallucinates (read: makes shit up) should not be anywhere near them.
People are free to use LLM plugins to “de-clickbait” headlines as they want, but keep that out of the news process itself.
Just my 2 cents on it.
I tried artifact for a bit, and the blog spam was so bad. Stuff would get promoted that would’ve never made it out of new on Reddit or Lemmy
Yeah, little control over presented articles was what led me to drop it when I was considering reddit alternatives but I’d kill for that de-clickbaiting feature to make way to RSS readers and link aggregators.
If people use clickbaity titles in the first place it’s cause they work, not because they don’t know how to write informative ones…
Edit: my bad, didn’t know what Artifact was…
So they learned nothing from buying Tumblr?
Guess they didn’t learn their lesson after Tumblr.
Question (somewhat sarcastically): how has Yahoo! remained relevant and where does it even get its money from?