BuzzFeed, every mention
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Google Gemini and AI bias
- ▶ 24:20 Toni Cowan-Brown It reminds me of, God, Buzzfeed did one of their listicles of show me what Barbie would look like from around the world, and obviously they ended up with a Barbie from Sudan carrying a rifle, Barbie from Germany that's dressed in what…
Buzzfeed News, Reddit and OpenAI
- ▶ 0:06 Benedict Evans And, and we thought we would talk about, well, this is sort of interesting symbolism this week in the little one hand Buzzfeed news shut down and on the other Stack Overflow and Reddit and a couple of other people said we are not okay with…
- ▶ 4:54 Benedict Evans And I thought it was just really interesting to compare that with BuzzFeed.
- ▶ 4:57 Benedict Evans Because BuzzFeed, which we, we invested in the A, 16 Z, um, when I worked there, but, you know, obviously not, not saying anything that isn't public. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:25 Benedict Evans What happened was, and there's obviously many different postmortems on this, BuzzFeed News did a lot of great stuff.
- ▶ 14:31 Toni Cowan-Brown I find it interesting with the piece around, you know, whether it's overflow, whomever is the, you know, Twitter, you name it, BuzzFeed coming, not BuzzFeed, but coming back and saying, hey, we need to be paid for this.
- ▶ 22:57 Toni Cowan-Brown Also fascinating that all of these questions are coming up for us, and like that piece that we kicked off with, which, you know, Reddit, Twitter, Stack Overflow wants to be paid for the data that's, that's helping, um, the likes of… 2 times in the scene