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If they go this far, it won't be a surprise if all of their articles is AI garbage

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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 223 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (26 children)

Gamerant is owned by Valent, which bought out and owns all the following:

Android Police, Comic Book Resources, Collider, Hardcore Gamer, MovieWeb, OpenCritic, Screen Rant, Game Rant, DualShockers, TheGamer, XDA Developers, How-To Geek, GiveMeSport, And Polygon

All of the above, and I mean all of them, had huge layoffs and pivoted to AI articles and adhoc underpaid contractors:

previous and current Valnet employees claim the company prioritizes "mass quantity over quality to churn out mind-numbing SEO bait." Once websites are acquired by Valnet, the permanent staff are usually replaced by contractors, who are paid significantly less (reportedly around $19 for 1000 words at GameRant[3]) than the former tenured staff. One former contributor described Valnet website Collider to TheWrap as "a content mill, borderline like almost sweatshop-level", while another writer suggested that Valnet forced contractors to create "junky clickbait" content. Valnet writers who complain about payment, working conditions, or reveal payment rates are alleged to be blacklisted by the company

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 80 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You shouldn't be allowed to own that much stuff. Simple solution.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 52 points 2 months ago

Thankfully there's the FTC and its antitrust law! /$

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