The 'Brand Safety' and 'Suitability' industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its 'sentiment analysis' algorithms think will make people sad or upset.

The ‘Brand Safety’ and ‘Suitability’ industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its ‘sentiment analysis’ algorithms think will make people sad or upset.

  • pooEnglish
    23•2 years ago

    Jezebel was awful and deserved to be shut down a long time ago.

  • @[email protected]
    77•2 years ago

    This is pure cope from the talentless cretins who ran jezebel (into the ground, all by themselves).

    They had not produced any meaningful journalism for several years. But sure, their downfall was caused by the secret conspiratorial algorithm that took ad money away.

    • stopthatgirl7OP
      16•2 years ago

      So Cory Doctorow - y’know, the guy who created the term “enshittification,” is also just “coping,” eh?

      There’s a bigger issue here than just a site you don’t think has value shutting down.

        • @[email protected]
          11•2 years ago

          Holy shit I don’t even know where to start with the massive list of strawman arguments put forth in this article.
          It decries “woke capitalism”. Lol

          Wtf is woke capitalism?

          The first amendment statement is just simply… wrong.

          The idea that the problem with social media is really that people aren’t allowed to just say anything without limitations is outright wacky.

          Yes let’s just end terms of service…says this guy apparently.

          These people are dangerously clueless.

      • @[email protected]
        27•2 years ago

        So Cory Doctorow - y’know, the guy who created the term “enshittification,” is also just “coping,” eh?

        Yes. Half that post is whining about conservatives and the other half is just repeating the content from the 404media article, without adding any additional value.

        There’s a bigger issue here than just a site you don’t think has value shutting down.

        When your business model revolves around ad money, you toe the line or die. It has always been this way.

        Jezebel died because it had no readers, not because its content was so upsetting to The Man that they were demonetized. We’re just hearing the pearl-clutching righteous indignation of people too proud to accept that they lost because they suck.

  • PeleSpiritEnglish
    12•2 years ago

    That’s a new one to me, I’ve never heard of sentiment analysis. This makes sense, they want control of your emotions and the ones that help their products. I bet they focus just on negging and jealousy inducing things. Sad and upset doesn’t sell shit.

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 years ago

      Sentiment analysis is basic data mining.

      Get access to an API and scan the tweets / posts / whatever and look for key words. Hate, dumb, wtf, love, awesome, etc. You can get 60-80% accuracy just counting the number of words that express a sentiment. Literally that simple, just count positive and negative words/phrases. Across a large dataset you can get a decent idea what people think, and there are easy ways to dig deeper.

      And that was the half-assed quick approach, folks who know Markov chains and LLMs could do far, far deeper analysis.

      • PeleSpiritEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Our world is breaking and we don’t know how to fix it, but we can guess pretty accurately how people feel about it. Turn AI onto fixing our problems people who make the robots.

  • Franzia
    7•2 years ago

    To people saying Jezebel deserves its failure: what do you read that’s so good?

  • MamboGatorEnglish
    14•2 years ago

    I didn’t really give Jezebel any thought since it was originally a part of Gawker. Maybe it got better after Gawker was sued out of existence, but I never bothered checking.