Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

• GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  After all these years, I’m still a little confused about what Forbes is. It used to be a legitimate, even respected magazine. Now it’s a blog site full of self-important randos who escaped from their cages on LinkedIn.

  There’s some sort of approval process, but it seems like its primary purpose is to inflate egos.

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  • alyaza@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As of 2019 the company published 100 articles each day produced by 3,000 outside contributors who were paid little or nothing.[52] This business model, in place since 2010,[53] “changed their reputation from being a respectable business publication to a content farm”, according to Damon Kiesow, the Knight Chair in digital editing and producing at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.[52] Similarly, Harvard University’s Nieman Lab deemed Forbes “a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism” as of 2022.[49]

    they realized that they could just become an SEO farm/content mill and churn out absurd numbers of articles while paying people table scraps or nothing at all, and they’ve never changed

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