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Digg Is Back Again, but With a New Format and Focus on AI (www.cnet.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Itโ€™s an aggregator of AI blowhards from Twitter ๐Ÿคฎ

[โ€“] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah, all the X links are the fucking worst. No fucking thanks.

[โ€“] Krusty@quokk.au 7 points 2 months ago

Trash summarizing trash.

[โ€“] Telorand@reddthat.com 22 points 2 months ago

"Digg watches what 1,000 of the most thoughtful voices in AI are paying attention to, and ranks the stories they're pointing at by what's rising fastest," Rose said.

...

It also uses AI from services such as xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini to "classify public accounts, summarize public posts and linked articles, describe public media, generate topic labels, score public content and power search." That would explain how Digg quantifies user sentiment into a percentage for its posts.

Focus on AI. AI apologists from Xitter. Powered by AI summarizers.

Barf.

[โ€“] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let me get this straight. They pulled it offline because it was overrun with bots, and legitimate users had no influence.

Their solution was to hand all influence over to a bot.

Genius. /s

[โ€“] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

If ya can't beat em, join em

[โ€“] db2@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

AI:

[โ€“] WarmSoda@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

No thanks

[โ€“] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

They also have a new URL. I assume this is because the old one still had SEO juice that bots wanted to slurp up.

https://di.gg/

[โ€“] mrdown@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Dead on arrival. Such a s tupid concept yo rank contrnt based on tweets

[โ€“] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Like, again again? Wasn't the first reboot already AI infested?

[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Wow thats like... the exact opposite of a thing I would want to experience.

I guess good job on creating a business model as rage bait?

[โ€“] DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

People should actually read digg.com homepage. The articles dont give the full story. So they're just starting out focusing on Ai, but plan to expand what digg aggregates. Guess we'll I just have to see how that goes....

[โ€“] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 2 months ago

pass

[โ€“] devolution@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

They should have stuck it out with the Reddit clone. The AI focus is shit.

[โ€“] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Dollar store reddit, now with extra AI crap? Oooooh..... Sounds fucking terrible!