James Griffiths @jamestgriffiths.com · Apr 6 This is so grim. What's the point of mass producing slop for a subscription-driven publication? This is something that would have been useful in a previous era of media, when you could have flooded Google with AI stories (as slop sites continue to do) and made ad revenue. Today, worthless.
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I guess it's time to block Fortune as a reputable site on Apple News. ☹️
Compare the profile of Nick Lichtenberg praised by Tucker to old profiles of Gawker's Neetzan Zimmerman, who was doing basically the same thing manually at the height of the Google traffic funnel. Zimmerman tried this approach again at The Messenger, it failed, and not because he couldn't use AI.