With whom did CNET maintain a top tier reputation until 2020? It's been a shell of itself for well over a decade at this point. That they've gone to full throated AI content seems to me the corpse standing up and shuffling around as a zombie.
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They were still doing some decent journalism here and there, but yeah, it's been getting worse and worse very steadily.
Yeah, if it was a "reputable source" ten years ago someone dropped the ball.
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CNET lost my trust when they repacked software and drivers in their archive with a homebrew installer that bundled bloatware. Initially the bing search bar, then Opera, latest I remember was some antivirus solution. Sure, you can deselect them all, but I hate those business practices with a passion.
Yeah, I mean prior to 2000 they were one of the trusted sources for software to be easily accessed and downloaded that was the up to date version. I would often learn about new features when installing what I downloaded from them because every piece of software didn't have embedded auto update and publishers were often small and given the developing state of things, unknown.
I like it that Wikipedia is now an authority on trustworthy citation sources.
Somebody needs to be! I like it being them
It's not. Which makes this a particularly powerful indictment of a once-reputable mainstream news site.
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Tom's hardware should be blacklisted. After it was purchased by a company that has a partnership with Intel, the bias and corporate propaganda is terrible.
Ohhhh that's why they have such a boner for Team Blue all the time. You just solved a mystery for me.
A little while ago I read part of a review where the author goes on and on about this latest and greatest AMD processor and how shit it was because it was way too powerful and really you should just buy a Intel CPU that is way slower and just as expensive, if not more so. Because you don't really need that much power do you? Or more money in your pocket? Give poor little indie developer Intel a try. I couldn't continue reading.
I was flabbergasted, yet impressed by the audacity of such a claim that has zero reasonable logic. Now it all makes sense.
They must have hired the clown that runs UserBemchark.
Lol I found the review through there, holy shit
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Future's portfolio of brands included TechRadar, PC Gamer, Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, Marie Claire, GamesRadar+, All About Space, How it Works, CinemaBlend, Android Central, IT Pro and Windows Central.
-Wikipedia
Hate CinemaBlend. Just endless vapid Ai generated shit. Probably the same course for the rest.
I deleted their bookmark when that story about the KFC gaming console was plastered on the front page for days
My friend used to work for CNET. She was laid off along with a decent amount of her coworkers years ago, maybe as much as 10+ IIRC, but yeah - they’ve been going downhill for awhile now and it seems to only be accelerating.
It’s really a shame because they used to be such a trusted source. Enshittification marches on to a steady beat.
That's not enshittification. It's just getting shittier.
Cats were working at CNET?
It is possible for cats to have non-cat friends.
The politically correct term for those in the cat world is "servant" or "slave".
I have not consciously clicked on any CNET content since the early 2000s. In my mind their content are mostly puff pieces without much substance. Are they even still relevant?
Google doesn't promote their pages until the middle or bottom of the search page which may as well be in the Mariana's trench. That's my anecdotal experience, anyway.
So they went from dumbshit to dogshit.
Wow. You know you dun goofed it when the "online encyclopedia anyone can edit" makes it very clear that "but not to write about you".
But wait, isn't AI the future?
Yes, just like the blockchain
The AI thinks so.
Always has been.
Shame. I remember when they were one of my favorite tech sites.
Me too! The problem is that we are running out of good tech sites. They're all getting bought and turning into SEO spam
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AI making shitty content is a symptom… unbridled unlimited greed is the cause.
Some rich asshole - probably someone who would burn their own children alive if it meant a short-term increase in profit margins - thought they’d make more money by stripping it bare and attempting to cash in for a single quarter rather than any sort of long-term investment.
And this is the consequence.
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Good for Wikipedia. A lot of "AI generated" content is simply plagiarized from existing sources.
CNET has been shit since the late 90s.
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