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Josh Allan
Josh Allan
11 months ago

‘Latine heritage month’

There are genuinely a cohort of people out there who would rather die than say the word ‘Latino’

Christopher Barclay
Christopher Barclay
11 months ago
Reply to  Josh Allan

Even more so ‘latina’, because that would also acknowledge the existence of the w-word, you know, ‘women’.

Christopher Barclay
Christopher Barclay
11 months ago
Reply to  Josh Allan

Even more so ‘latina’, because that would also acknowledge the existence of the w-word, you know, ‘women’.

Josh Allan
Josh Allan
11 months ago

‘Latine heritage month’

There are genuinely a cohort of people out there who would rather die than say the word ‘Latino’

J Bryant
J Bryant
11 months ago

Interestingly, it appears Unherd is poised to try a very different approach to making a profit from internet journalism.
Yesterday, a series of links appeared at the top of the Unherd home page that divided up Unherd content. I tried the links and some didn’t work which, I suspect, is why they do not appear today. The most interesting link was “Unherd Club”. If you join Unherd Club you receive discounts to in-person events at the club and on-line access to recordings of those events, among other perks.
Regular readers of Unherd will have seen advertisements for upcoming Unherd Club events, such as a discussion between Paul Kingsnorth and Mary Harrington, and a non-woke comedy hour. Also included in Unherd Club content is the interview with Kathleen Stock. Eleven minutes of that interview appeared on the publicly available Unherd TV youtube channel, but not the whole interview.
It appears Unherd will now be charging a subscription for its best interviews. I don’t know what type of content, if any, will now appear for free on Unherd TV. The cost for Unherd Club membership: 150 pounds per year (can be paid in monthly installments). It wasn’t clear whether the 150 pounds also gets you a subscription to the Unherd online magazine or if that is extra.
I wonder how many people have enough disposable income to pay 150 pounds (or more) per year, and are sufficiently interested in Unherd Club content to pay that much? I wonder who Unherd’s main target audience is?
Buzzfeed is enlisting AI to write woke clickbait for almost free. Unherd is producing quality content and, it appears, intends to charge premium pricing. Two different approaches to the same monetization problem. I wonder who (if anyone) will win?

Last edited 11 months ago by J Bryant
Matt M
Matt M
11 months ago
Reply to  J Bryant

I took a friend to an event at the UnHerd Club – Matt Goodwin and Claire Fox. We had dinner downstairs too. Excellent evening and one I intend to do more often. I think it was £20 each for the tickets so a unlimited access for £150 seems reasonable. Especially as you are paying to support the UnHerd endeavour.
EDIT: in fact I just subscribed. The link is working now.

Last edited 11 months ago by Matt M
Coralie Palmer
Coralie Palmer
11 months ago
Reply to  J Bryant

I was sent an email inviting me to subscribe to Unherd Club. I simply can’t afford it, being on my uppers at the moment. I like the Unherd site a good deal, though I would love to see its range extended to more concentrated factual news pieces as well as op-ed.
That’s simply because I really can’t find any newspaper that does news any more. Even in the erstwhile broadsheets, news is written as op-ed, op-ed is written as gossip, and all of it is sourced from Twitter, which both government and media seem to mistake for the voice of the public.

Matt M
Matt M
11 months ago
Reply to  J Bryant

I took a friend to an event at the UnHerd Club – Matt Goodwin and Claire Fox. We had dinner downstairs too. Excellent evening and one I intend to do more often. I think it was £20 each for the tickets so a unlimited access for £150 seems reasonable. Especially as you are paying to support the UnHerd endeavour.
EDIT: in fact I just subscribed. The link is working now.

Last edited 11 months ago by Matt M
Coralie Palmer
Coralie Palmer
11 months ago
Reply to  J Bryant

I was sent an email inviting me to subscribe to Unherd Club. I simply can’t afford it, being on my uppers at the moment. I like the Unherd site a good deal, though I would love to see its range extended to more concentrated factual news pieces as well as op-ed.
That’s simply because I really can’t find any newspaper that does news any more. Even in the erstwhile broadsheets, news is written as op-ed, op-ed is written as gossip, and all of it is sourced from Twitter, which both government and media seem to mistake for the voice of the public.

J Bryant
J Bryant
11 months ago

Interestingly, it appears Unherd is poised to try a very different approach to making a profit from internet journalism.
Yesterday, a series of links appeared at the top of the Unherd home page that divided up Unherd content. I tried the links and some didn’t work which, I suspect, is why they do not appear today. The most interesting link was “Unherd Club”. If you join Unherd Club you receive discounts to in-person events at the club and on-line access to recordings of those events, among other perks.
Regular readers of Unherd will have seen advertisements for upcoming Unherd Club events, such as a discussion between Paul Kingsnorth and Mary Harrington, and a non-woke comedy hour. Also included in Unherd Club content is the interview with Kathleen Stock. Eleven minutes of that interview appeared on the publicly available Unherd TV youtube channel, but not the whole interview.
It appears Unherd will now be charging a subscription for its best interviews. I don’t know what type of content, if any, will now appear for free on Unherd TV. The cost for Unherd Club membership: 150 pounds per year (can be paid in monthly installments). It wasn’t clear whether the 150 pounds also gets you a subscription to the Unherd online magazine or if that is extra.
I wonder how many people have enough disposable income to pay 150 pounds (or more) per year, and are sufficiently interested in Unherd Club content to pay that much? I wonder who Unherd’s main target audience is?
Buzzfeed is enlisting AI to write woke clickbait for almost free. Unherd is producing quality content and, it appears, intends to charge premium pricing. Two different approaches to the same monetization problem. I wonder who (if anyone) will win?

Last edited 11 months ago by J Bryant
chris Barton
chris Barton
11 months ago

So we wont notice a difference in the content then? its all group “think” stuff anyway (saying what’s fashionable while pretending you’re the resistance)

chris Barton
chris Barton
11 months ago

So we wont notice a difference in the content then? its all group “think” stuff anyway (saying what’s fashionable while pretending you’re the resistance)

Alphonse Pfarti
Alphonse Pfarti
11 months ago

Find an AI bot that will short its stock for you and you’ll clean up.

Alphonse Pfarti
Alphonse Pfarti
11 months ago

Find an AI bot that will short its stock for you and you’ll clean up.

Emmanuel MARTIN
Emmanuel MARTIN
11 months ago

That is a big change. Putting intelligence in Buzzfeed content creation, even articial one, should be a major step forward.

Emmanuel MARTIN
Emmanuel MARTIN
11 months ago

That is a big change. Putting intelligence in Buzzfeed content creation, even articial one, should be a major step forward.

Robbie K
Robbie K
11 months ago

Seems to me they will just be stealing other people’s content then serving it up as their own.

Robbie K
Robbie K
11 months ago

Seems to me they will just be stealing other people’s content then serving it up as their own.

UnHerd Reader
UnHerd Reader
11 months ago

AI was an “exciting new creativity tool” that could be used for “imagination, storytelling and entertainment”.

sure….Crossroads at Midnight stuff…

”(Mississippi Bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 in exchange for becoming the greatest Bluesman of all time. ** ‘What Robert Johnson did record complimented these tales quite well. A few of his titles included “Hellhound on My Trail,” “Cross Road Blues,” “Up Jumped the Devil,” and “Me and the Devil Blues.”)”

See – When God made Man from dust and gave him a soul, God is perfect – and even giving man Free Will to do evil if he chose, the creator still was perfect, and so goodness fills us. Evil may take our will if we let it – but goodness is innate if we track true.

Man created AI. We are not pure good – we have bad, evil even, in us. And through that Satan works, and taints out Hubristic creation. As God has not put his hand on this creation, surely Satan has… Look at some AI Art! Dark – you can see the evil back in there peering out… AI will soon perfect hiding that – the Devils greatest power is his ability of making people think he does not exist – but he does, and soon he will be walking amongst us…. telling us lies and stories to catch us…..meeting us at the crossroads we did not even know we were at….

Simon Blanchard
Simon Blanchard
11 months ago
Reply to  UnHerd Reader

You make an interesting point: AI “art” is uniformly sinister. But then I am getting on a bit and I sometimes wonder if seeing “darkness” everywhere is a symptom of old age.

Simon Blanchard
Simon Blanchard
11 months ago
Reply to  UnHerd Reader

You make an interesting point: AI “art” is uniformly sinister. But then I am getting on a bit and I sometimes wonder if seeing “darkness” everywhere is a symptom of old age.

UnHerd Reader
UnHerd Reader
11 months ago

AI was an “exciting new creativity tool” that could be used for “imagination, storytelling and entertainment”.

sure….Crossroads at Midnight stuff…

”(Mississippi Bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 in exchange for becoming the greatest Bluesman of all time. ** ‘What Robert Johnson did record complimented these tales quite well. A few of his titles included “Hellhound on My Trail,” “Cross Road Blues,” “Up Jumped the Devil,” and “Me and the Devil Blues.”)”

See – When God made Man from dust and gave him a soul, God is perfect – and even giving man Free Will to do evil if he chose, the creator still was perfect, and so goodness fills us. Evil may take our will if we let it – but goodness is innate if we track true.

Man created AI. We are not pure good – we have bad, evil even, in us. And through that Satan works, and taints out Hubristic creation. As God has not put his hand on this creation, surely Satan has… Look at some AI Art! Dark – you can see the evil back in there peering out… AI will soon perfect hiding that – the Devils greatest power is his ability of making people think he does not exist – but he does, and soon he will be walking amongst us…. telling us lies and stories to catch us…..meeting us at the crossroads we did not even know we were at….

Andrew Horsman
Andrew Horsman
11 months ago

What could possibly go wrong?

Andrew Horsman
Andrew Horsman
11 months ago

What could possibly go wrong?

Frances An
Frances An
11 months ago

Very interesting article. BuzzFeed seems unprepared to accept defeat. AI will not rescue it =_=. The fact I’m not terribly sad about BuzzFeed replacing writers with AI content says something…

That said, using AI (followed by human editing and selection) to make fun quizzes could actually be a cool idea. AI could scan many databases on personal characteristics (e.g., personality traits, career features etc) instantly: think of it like a factor analysis tool but with all statistical figures interpreted for the user. Hmmm…

Frances An
Frances An
11 months ago

Very interesting article. BuzzFeed seems unprepared to accept defeat. AI will not rescue it =_=. The fact I’m not terribly sad about BuzzFeed replacing writers with AI content says something…

That said, using AI (followed by human editing and selection) to make fun quizzes could actually be a cool idea. AI could scan many databases on personal characteristics (e.g., personality traits, career features etc) instantly: think of it like a factor analysis tool but with all statistical figures interpreted for the user. Hmmm…

Chris Amies
Chris Amies
11 months ago

Instead of just reading like it’s been generated by AI anyway?

Christopher Barclay
Christopher Barclay
11 months ago

¿Que coño es ´latine´?