• WillySpreadumEnglish
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    fta “Kotaku’s staff will be expected to create 50 guides a week at the site.

    Yeah, I’d quit too. I mean, aren’t they just going to be drowning each other out at that point?

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      What does fta mean?

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          Thanks, haven’t seen that abbreviation before

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      Looks like they’re trying to compete with AI spam.

      Either that or trying to push their staff to use AI without saying it.

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        I would guess the latter. That’s 10 guides a day. An even somewhat useful guide would take 5 days alone to research and write I would estimate.

        What they want is the slew of spam-AI-generated “Here’s how to obtain the third rusty shortsword in age of calamity”-“guides” where it’s 5-10 pages of always the same overly verbose prose that’s totally not done by an LLM, no no. And there’s like 4 words of content in the whole article, about something utterly menial. And these guides exist for every single of 15000 items, in every single video game. Of course they do.