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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/casualuk@feddit.uk

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This used to be an informative website on how to do DIY stuff, aimed at young adults.

The audience seems to have.... changed?

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 38 points 2 months ago

It looks like it's been overrun with AI "articles". There's tons of telltale stuff like this:

What Are The Most Popular Names This Year?
Great question! In America, here are the top 10 boys and girls names of 2025:

I know that they took some heat for adopting AI to generate their images but it looks like it's gone much farther than that.

I am pretty sure the content is irrelevant to the owners as from it's first sale in 2006, it existed primarily to be an adsense ad farm.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I never found wikihow to be very good anyway.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago

their DIY stuff wasn't half bad

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Lack of moderation.

Everything decays toward the lowest common denominator, unless pruned.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Have you met young adults these days? Labubu trending generator is precisely their mental age.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Hey! Some of us are holding strong away from garbage like that and instead rescuing stuffed animals from thrift shops!

I don't wanna be lumped in with the labubu crowd!

[–] ikon106@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 months ago

Ok, boomer