Former employee at Comic Book Resources claims the company fired all the news editors and has become an “AI-driven clickbait-focused mill"

[BWoog]

It use to be Gail Simone's homebase

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Those were the good old days.

 

[Ambient80]

Wasn't there a Twitter account that quote tweeted everything that site posted and explained what was in the clickbait article so you didn't have to actually click?

Legend.

 

[Ernest]

Had few convos with Walter Simonson on their boards - but I don't think he frequents them any more.

 

[Faceless_Caesar]

Doing something like this would probably help root out sites that are using AI to create content. With how low your editorial standards would have to be to use AI in the first place the 1 flesh and blood employee probably won't bother or even have the time to fact check it.

https://www.mmorpg.com/news/world-of-warcraft-subreddit-trolls-ai-generated-news-site-into-publishing-fake-article-2000128508

 

[mbpm]

Message board over on CBR is basically Comicgate-lite so if it were to get nuked I wouldn't shed tears.



Yep, I was posting on the site of the time so I remember when it happened live. Comic creators used to post on the forum and interact with the community and at the time Felicia Henderson was the writer of Teen Titans. The comic was boring but otherwise inoffensive but she got so much venom thrown her way the administrator of the site got embarrassed and decided to nuke the forum and restart.

And like shit hasn't gotten any better. The forum is, like I said, pretty much comicgate-lite and most creators don't even bother actively posting there anymore specifically because of it.

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Interesting. I guess I've been fortunate to be cloistered into a subforum that rarely interacts with the greater whole then (and has like 4 active members lol). I also wasn't there for like a decade until returning recently

 

[SuperDevilJoe]

Only ever seen tweets from them. Never clicked a link, never went to the site...hope they crash and burn now

 

[Naijaboy]

Those were the good old days.

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Their character boards and comic recap forums were unmatched for a long time.

 

[Freezasaurus]

The point is that they are using AI to generate articles. We shouldn't be promoting that here, or redirecting users to give sites like that clicks.

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Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle and every C-suite scumfuck from here to Kalamazoo is looking to use AI to cut payroll. Just the nature of capitalism, sadly.

 

[plz_give_me_a_job]

The future will be bunch of AIs clickbaiting each other while humans slave away at factories and mines for measly wages while five (5) billionaires can do everything they want.

 

[sven]

They might have just started using AI but CBR has been a crappy clickbait site for a while now.