AI Creative Fellow, Buzzfeed

BuzzFeed.com

Salary not provided

$20.00- $25.00 an hour

ChatGPT
Los Angeles
New York
Remote from US
Buzzfeed

Social news organization

Job no longer available

Buzzfeed

Social news organization

1001+ employees

B2CPublishingContentEntertainmentDigital Media

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

$20.00- $25.00 an hour

ChatGPT
Los Angeles
New York
Remote from US

1001+ employees

B2CPublishingContentEntertainmentDigital Media

Company mission

BuzzFeed's mission is to make the internet better by providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring its audience to live better lives.

Role

Who you are

  • If you have experience using emerging tech tools to make cool stuff of your own, even better!
  • We're looking for culture, internet, and technology obsessives with a passion for the things people are sharing, liking, recommending, and talking about. You should also have:
  • A positive, curious, playful disposition
  • A genuine, wide-eyed love of internet culture and digital trends of all types
  • Experience using current and emerging AI creation tools (Chat-GPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and beyond)
  • An interest in social platforms and what drives people to share content
  • Curiosity and excitement about social platforms (TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, Tumblr, etc.)
  • In addition, you should demonstrate the following:
  • Some experience creating content for the internet (it doesn’t have to be formal — anything from published articles to creative Twitter threads to personal TikTok accounts)
  • Experience writing prompts and an understanding the current landscape of AI and LLM tools
  • Ability to quickly identify social trends and topics
  • Ability to handle critical feedback and improve from it
  • Eagerness to collaborate
  • Ability to interpret key audience data points relating to your work and use it to adapt and evolve your approach moving forward
  • Experience with video editing tools a plus

What the job involves

  • The BuzzFeed Fellowship is a full-time program for aspiring and hungry creators eager to experiment with the latest AI technology to make playful and conversation-starting work
  • The program is a full time deep dive with generative AI and Fellows will regularly contribute — both directly with content and indirectly in strategic sessions — to BuzzFeed’s ongoing AI content strategy
  • This is not a tech or development role, this is an editorial, creative job
  • Fellows need a strong grasp of the nuanced cultural conversations happening all over the internet and should be excited about contributing to those conversations, if not starting new ones, via AI-enhanced/generated content
  • We’re looking for people genuinely obsessed with social media and tracking online memes, trends, and viral moments — and people who have some experience (even if it's just personal or casual) with ChatGPT, Claude, DALL-E, and/or other AI tools
  • Fellows should be prepared to work across mediums and formats — quizzes, image collections, videos, and more. Think AI powered image generators, lists of AI-generated images, gamified chatbots, filters and new formats we haven't seen yet made possible with generative AI
  • Fellows will work with and learn from members of the BuzzFeed team — some of the smartest, weirdest, most creative, and most viral creators out there
  • This is the perfect opportunity for someone interested in pursuing a career in digital media
  • You won’t be running errands for senior staff, or transcribing someone else’s interviews, you will be pitching ideas, taking assignments, brainstorming, collaborating, and ultimately creating dozens of pieces of content that will be published across BuzzFeed’s network
  • The Fellowship is fun and inspiring, but also fast-paced and challenging
  • We’re recruiting positions for Summer Fellowship start times, and applications will be assessed on a rolling basis

Application process

  • Please submit the following when applying to be an AI Creative Fellow:
  • Instead of a formal cover letter, take some time to research two generators we’ve already published (like Wedding Ring Designer, Transform Your Pet Into A Human, or Soda Generator). You can find all the generators on our Arcade page as well. Select two generators and consider the following questions about them:
  • What was your overall experience like using the generators?
  • Did you encounter any challenges using the generators?
  • How would you improve or change the generator in any way?
  • What audience do you think this generator applies to?
  • You must provide 3 new generator ideas that you think would apply to the BuzzFeed audience
  • OPTIONAL: Make a BuzzFeed.com Community profile, and create 1-2 posts that reflect your voice and interests. The posts should include some AI-generated content (text or images). When you submit your posts, include “This is for the AI Creative Fellowship.” in the description. If you publish posts, please include the links in your application materials!
  • Provide links to your public social media accounts
  • Attach a resume — keep it to one page!

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Insights

Top investors

1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Jun 2021

$150m

CONVERTIBLE

Nov 2016

$200m

SERIES G

Total funding: $646.3m

Our take

BuzzFeed is an international media company reaching hundreds of millions of readers each month. The company started life as a platform for viral media, and quickly became known for its online quizzes, listicles, and pop culture articles. At its height, the platform received over 1 billion page views each month.

In 2011, the company launched BuzzFeed News, which won multiple accolades including the National Magazine Award and the George Polk Award before the 2023 announcement it would be shutting down. The closure of its News arm comes alongside similar troubles amongst its online news peers, and has been spurred along by a tough economy, a declining stock market, a slowdown in digital advertising, and changing audience habits.

Despite this considerable blow to its operations, BuzzFeed will continue its presence across YouTube, podcasting and other content, with hopes it will bounce back in the upcoming years. Interestingly, it was announced that HuffPost - which the company bought in 2020 - will continue to publish news as it remains profitable.

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