Quartz Fires All Writers After Move to AI Slop

The cursed pattern continues: following a baffling and error-ridden turn to AI content, the once-acclaimed business publication Quartz has been sold off and its editorial team almost entirely axed — making it the latest media brand to see low-quality AI use precede mass layoffs. As the business publication's cofounder Zach Seward, who now leads editorial AI initiatives at The New York Times, explained in a blog post yesterday, Quartz has changed hands several times since its launch back in 2012. Before last week's sale, it was owned by the digital media conglomerate G/O Media, whose ever-controversial CEO Jim Spanfeller famously misspelled Quartz when announcing G/O's 2022 purchase of the site (he spelled it "quarts," which is just a completely different word.) Fast forward three years later, and as of last week, Quartz has yet another new owner: a Canadian software company called Redbrick, which bought Quartz and the commerce site The Inventory from G/O for an undisclosed amount, as ... Read full article.