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https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/26/buzzfeed-goes-ai-then-it-goes-broke/ - blog post

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Sources:

• BuzzFeed's Bet on Bots (archive) https://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 https://www.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 https://futurism.com/buzzfeed-publishing-articles-by-ai
• BuzzFeed News, Which Dragged Media Into the Digital Age, Shuts Down https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/business/buzzfeed-news-shut-down.html
• BuzzFeed Says AI Will "Replace the Majority of Static Content" https://futurism.com/buzzfeed-ai-replace-content
• How Buzzfeed is using AI to boost engagement as social traffic wanes https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/buzzfeed-ai/
• BuzzFeed, Inc. Reports Q4 and Full Year 2025 Results https://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 https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/buzzfeed-ai-slop-apps-sxsw-bf-island-conjure/

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