After only reading half of the title I’m very hopeful about yahoos venture into the digital collectible card game market, I’m sure this will be a great success!
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.
Yahoo Inc. owns TechCrunch, Autoblog, and Engadget, plus some other stuff, along with their own Yahoo-branded stuff (excluding Yahoo Japan, which is a totally separate company). It's a ton of eyeballs, and they sell the ads on their sites.
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.
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.
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