Comment by radious

1 day ago

The real news here is that Digg is still up :O

It came back, died, and now it's back as some kind of weird AI-focused news aggregator.

  • this sentence hurts to read

    • But they have such great AI generated insights on their AI stories:

      "Many users praise Zhipu for open-sourcing GLM-5.2 under MIT with a 1M context window as a major step for accessible AI, while others respond with insults and anti-Chinese hostility."

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  • That's disappointing to hear, I remember the reboot news and thought they had a pretty solid team behind it. I guess gaining traction proved too difficult.

  • I actually found some of it useful. I saw some page where it helpfully pulled tweets from well known people relating to some story. So it’s not just some slop, or that’s how it looked to me.

  • which is hilarious because i was excited when i heard Digg was coming back. Many platforms are having a difficult time with bots, mass thread manipulation, etc. I'd be interested in a platform which attempted to fix that problem. I thought that was "so obvious" that i figured it was going to exactly be Digg's play. .. nope, just another AI play, as if we are missing those these days.

    No idea if zero AI/bots is even possible, but at least an attempt would have me interested. A platform like Reddit/Digg of old, offering human connection, features aimed at less toxicity, etc.

    Instead they give us this AI crap :s

This version is peak ai slop garbage trying to game the Google algorithm

It seems to be basically a Twitter mirror with extra cruft?

  • More like a curator of all the AI news on Twitter. It’s also a great way to find trending AI projects on GitHub and elsewhere