The brutal reality check seemingly hasn’t put Peretti off from pursuing AI, though. He now says he’s hoping to bring “new AI apps to the market” this year.
Was recently thinking this might happen to Pinterest, too. Their webpage was never great, with how it tried to prevent you from downloading images, when that was literally the only reason I would ever visit. But at least, they did have a big database of images and a decent algorithm for detecting visual similarity.
And well, they have an even bigger database of images now, but the majority of it is not worth looking at, because the images are not real. I don't bother visiting anymore, because you can't find anything worthwhile on there anymore.
They did announce going all-in on AI at some point, but I don't know, if they actually decided to generate images themselves. That seems almost too stupid.
Could be that they have some financial incentives for folks posting and that alone lead to tons of AI-generated uploads. I don't actually know how Pinterest was supposed to work...
22 Comments
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 83 pts · 162d
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 162d
clever
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca · 43 pts · 162d
Only two words I can think of to say to this: Fucking lmao.
Wait I got two more: Good riddance.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 162d
I got one! Get wrecked.
yaroto98@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 162d
Let's hope this trend continues for all brands that do this.
Madrigal@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 162d
I don’t get it. How can you even tell the difference?
anothermember@feddit.uk · 42 pts · 162d
Yeah, they were making AI slop by hand before we even had AI.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 162d
Good grief. Can you imagine an LLM trained on Buzzfeed’s content?
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 162d
That's gotta be slop². That's slop mastery. It would open up a whole new world of weapons grade slop.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 162d
Logarithmic slop?
Madrigal@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 162d
Instant model collapse.
plm00@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 162d
The only good thing to come from AI.
JakenVeina@midwest.social · 13 pts · 162d
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 162d
Was recently thinking this might happen to Pinterest, too. Their webpage was never great, with how it tried to prevent you from downloading images, when that was literally the only reason I would ever visit. But at least, they did have a big database of images and a decent algorithm for detecting visual similarity.
And well, they have an even bigger database of images now, but the majority of it is not worth looking at, because the images are not real. I don't bother visiting anymore, because you can't find anything worthwhile on there anymore.
They did announce going all-in on AI at some point, but I don't know, if they actually decided to generate images themselves. That seems almost too stupid.
Could be that they have some financial incentives for folks posting and that alone lead to tons of AI-generated uploads. I don't actually know how Pinterest was supposed to work...
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 161d
womp womp
GalacticTaterTot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 162d
They're still around? I thought they'd long went bankrupt.
folaht@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 161d
No, that was Gawker.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 162d
They still exist?
hyacin@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 161d
DIE! DIIIIEEEEE!!!!!
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Mwa@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 162d
Karma fr.
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 161d
I'm surprised they weren't struggling sooner given their reputation for putting out non-AI slop.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 160d
The AI started writing beyond their primary audience's reading range /s