It was probably quicker to ask an AI to edit it than to make the edit personally and the writers for these sites are paid very little to churn out multiple low effort articles a day
Well someone needs to prompt the AI, find reddit articles to copy and make sure the final article has all the SEO to make it show up in searches to earn the company ad revenue. The high ups at Valent aren’t going to do the dirty work and underpaying someone to be a writer also allows them to shift some of the blame should there be a major issue with an article.
The first sentence of Valent’s about page says “Valnet was founded in 2012 by builders with […] an obsession with scale.” Based on this I’m sure that at some point in their constant acquisition and gutting of known brands they will try or have tried having AI make and publish the articles directly, but I also feel like people are more likely to stop visiting a site where the content is directly from an LLM than one that has human written/edited articles with heavy LLM involvement.
The “6 finger thing” has also been mostly trained out of modern models and it’s such an old meme it’s the first thing anyone looks for in any sort of review.
Not only can they not photoshop, they can’t even AI properly.
That or the 6 fingers were a deliberate choice. Trying to associate palworld with AI and therefore copyright infringement?
Because we’re now talking about it, and they’re getting more clicks/interactions because of it. AI does the work in a fraction of the time, with the added benefit of being rage-bait.
Tell me you don’t understand how business works in real life without using those words.
If it didn’t get clicks, and the associated ad revenue, it wouldn’t be so widespread.
Well done! Genuine applause here!
For those who are, like Lyrl here, completely unaware of how businesses operate, here are a few things businesses routinely do that are counter-productive, yet businesses stick to them like glue.
Open office layouts. Study after study shows that open office layouts reduce productivity, generate added employee stress, and spread illness rapidly. The excuse is that it fosters collaboration, but those same studies show this is rarely the case. Yet businesses, especially tech and media businesses, suckle at the teat of open office and keep doing so DECADES after it was proved counter-productive. Repeatedly. At length.
Non-assigned seating (a.k.a. “hot desking”). This wastes employee time every day as they go hunting for their workplace for the day. It breeds cliques, intra-team resentment, and generally causes turf wars that are damaging to morale and team cohesion. It’s been a fad in tech circles, however, for decades after the numbers came in.
Meeting culture. Most studies show that workers think they attend about 30% too many meetings. On top of that, most meetings are terribly unstructured, lack focus, and become, in effect, time sinks that steal productive “deep work” time in favour of performative nonsense. When you start factoring in things like “pre-meeting meetings” and other administrivial nonsense like that, meetings are quite possibly the single most destructive force to a company’s productivity … and yet meetings are on a rise, not a decline, across all white collar industries (and some blue collar ones).
Performance reviews. There is literally zero evidence that these improve performance. Instead they tend to be backward looking matters that are used to excuse, through careful cherry-picking of data, management decisions on salaries, promotions, etc. Further, given that none of them are based on neutral, verifiable rubrics, they are guaranteed to be positively festooned with biases and grudges. They serve no purpose, they accomplish no material aims, yet they are almost omnipresent across all industries.
This is just a short list off the top of my head of counter-productive business behaviour that actively damages corporate profit yet which are practised widely. If I did the deep research I could probably easily expand that list into the dozens. I mean as I was typing this conclusion “hustle culture” and “entrenched bureaucracy” crossed my mind. And as I was typing that previous sentence “one size fits all rewards” also jammed in there.
If you actually work in business, and if you look around you with open eyes paired with just a wee little bit of education and/or research, you’ll find dozens, if not hundreds, of common things businesses and business managers do that are actively counter-productive … but that they stick to anyway.
This would have been some Photoshop 101 shit.
Why has everyone forgotten how to manually manipulate photos?
The AI version is obviously not better.
It was probably quicker to ask an AI to edit it than to make the edit personally and the writers for these sites are paid very little to churn out multiple low effort articles a day
Nailed it.
Their boss probably wants to replace them with an agent too.
Any amount above $0.00 is WAY TOO much money to pay these “writers” to spend half-an hour a week hitting CTRL+X and CRTL+V.
Well someone needs to prompt the AI, find reddit articles to copy and make sure the final article has all the SEO to make it show up in searches to earn the company ad revenue. The high ups at Valent aren’t going to do the dirty work and underpaying someone to be a writer also allows them to shift some of the blame should there be a major issue with an article.
The first sentence of Valent’s about page says “Valnet was founded in 2012 by builders with […] an obsession with scale.” Based on this I’m sure that at some point in their constant acquisition and gutting of known brands they will try or have tried having AI make and publish the articles directly, but I also feel like people are more likely to stop visiting a site where the content is directly from an LLM than one that has human written/edited articles with heavy LLM involvement.
I don’t think the “reporters” are paid enough to care
The “6 finger thing” has also been mostly trained out of modern models and it’s such an old meme it’s the first thing anyone looks for in any sort of review.
Not only can they not photoshop, they can’t even AI properly.
That or the 6 fingers were a deliberate choice. Trying to associate palworld with AI and therefore copyright infringement?
Which is even more stupid considering that Pocketpair publicly stated that they don’t use AI
Because we’re now talking about it, and they’re getting more clicks/interactions because of it. AI does the work in a fraction of the time, with the added benefit of being rage-bait.
People don’t click through on rage bait. It only serves to push an agenda.
If it didn’t get clicks, and the associated ad revenue, it wouldn’t be so widespread.
Tell me you don’t understand how business works in real life without using those words.
Well done! Genuine applause here!
For those who are, like Lyrl here, completely unaware of how businesses operate, here are a few things businesses routinely do that are counter-productive, yet businesses stick to them like glue.
Open office layouts. Study after study shows that open office layouts reduce productivity, generate added employee stress, and spread illness rapidly. The excuse is that it fosters collaboration, but those same studies show this is rarely the case. Yet businesses, especially tech and media businesses, suckle at the teat of open office and keep doing so DECADES after it was proved counter-productive. Repeatedly. At length.
Non-assigned seating (a.k.a. “hot desking”). This wastes employee time every day as they go hunting for their workplace for the day. It breeds cliques, intra-team resentment, and generally causes turf wars that are damaging to morale and team cohesion. It’s been a fad in tech circles, however, for decades after the numbers came in.
Meeting culture. Most studies show that workers think they attend about 30% too many meetings. On top of that, most meetings are terribly unstructured, lack focus, and become, in effect, time sinks that steal productive “deep work” time in favour of performative nonsense. When you start factoring in things like “pre-meeting meetings” and other administrivial nonsense like that, meetings are quite possibly the single most destructive force to a company’s productivity … and yet meetings are on a rise, not a decline, across all white collar industries (and some blue collar ones).
Performance reviews. There is literally zero evidence that these improve performance. Instead they tend to be backward looking matters that are used to excuse, through careful cherry-picking of data, management decisions on salaries, promotions, etc. Further, given that none of them are based on neutral, verifiable rubrics, they are guaranteed to be positively festooned with biases and grudges. They serve no purpose, they accomplish no material aims, yet they are almost omnipresent across all industries.
This is just a short list off the top of my head of counter-productive business behaviour that actively damages corporate profit yet which are practised widely. If I did the deep research I could probably easily expand that list into the dozens. I mean as I was typing this conclusion “hustle culture” and “entrenched bureaucracy” crossed my mind. And as I was typing that previous sentence “one size fits all rewards” also jammed in there.
If you actually work in business, and if you look around you with open eyes paired with just a wee little bit of education and/or research, you’ll find dozens, if not hundreds, of common things businesses and business managers do that are actively counter-productive … but that they stick to anyway.