BuzzFeed goes AI — then it goes broke @PivotToAI
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Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
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BuzzFeed’s Bet on Bots (archive) web.archive.org/web/20230128051113/https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1674787291972586081ce914d/raw
BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-to-use-chatgpt-creator-openai-to-help-create-some-of-its-content-11674752660
BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes futurism.com/buzzfeed-publishing-articles-by-ai
BuzzFeed News, Which Dragged Media Into the Digital Age, Shuts Down nytimes.com/2023/04/20/business/buzzfeed-news-shut-down.html
BuzzFeed Says AI Will “Replace the Majority of Static Content” futurism.com/buzzfeed-ai-replace-content
How Buzzfeed is using AI to boost engagement as social traffic wanes pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/buzzfeed-ai
BuzzFeed, Inc. Reports Q4 and Full Year 2025 Results investors.buzzfeed.com/news-releases/news-release-details/buzzfeed-inc-reports-q4-and-full-year-2025-results
BuzzFeed debuts AI slop apps in bid for new revenue techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/buzzfeed-ai-slop-apps-sxsw-bf-island-conjure

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