• Otter@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      That already fell apart, they gave up after the site got overrun with bots. Coincidentally, they were planning to use “AI” to run parts of the site, including moderation

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        2 hours ago

        I just visited digg.com and got redirected to digg.com/tech. The article titles are

        And the content appears to be AI-generated summaries of Twitter conversations. Phenomenal.

        An older version of the website just redirected to digg.com/ai (“AI news, before it trends”, and the archived copy seems to have an ironically oversized Twitter logo).

        Poor Digg. If they’d only come around a year or two earlier, they could’ve made bank selling NFTs.