AI Futurist Fellow

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Big Data Technology, Image processing

Job Description

BuzzFeed, Inc. (Ticker: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet. Across food, news, pop culture and commerce, our brands drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, buy, and obsess over next. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to making it better: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives. We'll continue to recruit the best founders and creators to join us in this mission, with more additions like Complex Networks and HuffPost to come.

Business Area: Content

Job Category: Editorial

Hourly: The contractual minimum hourly rate for this position is $18.00

Union Status: Non-Union 

BuzzFeed Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We reserve the ability to adjust the final compensation for this role based on the final candidate's experience, skillset, certifications, and geography.

The Role

The BuzzFeed Fellowship is a year-long program for aspiring and hungry creators eager to experiment with the latest AI technology to make playful and conversation-starting work. The program is both a crash course in how to utilize text- and image-based AI tools as well as a chance to regularly contribute 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 who are fascinated by social media, human psychology, and trends of all kinds. Fellows should be prepared to work across mediums and formats — quizzes, image collections, videos, and more. Think AI quizzes with infinite results, lists of AI-generated images, experimental chatbots, and more.

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. 

This is a paid position (starting at $18/hour). The Fellowship allows for candidates to work fully remote in select locations, but there will also be opportunities to work from our NY or LA locations.

The deadline to apply for this Fellowship is August 4th, 2023 by 5pm EST. All application materials will need to be submitted when you apply. The intended (and tentative) start date for this Fellowship is September 5th, 2023.

To Apply

Please submit the following when applying to be an Editorial Fellow:

• Instead of a formal cover letter, please include a few short paragraphs about what topics and formats you’d like to explore in creating AI-generated content and what interests you about the content BuzzFeed currently makes (articles, videos, TikToks).

• Make a BuzzFeed.com Community profile, and create 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 Editorial Fellowship.” in the description. You’ll be asked to provide the links to your posts when you complete the application. SO, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMUNITY POSTS PRIOR TO COMPLETING THIS APPLICATION! We encourage you to check our Trending page to see examples of the topics and formats currently resonating with our audience.

Provide links to your public social media accounts.

• Attach a resume — keep it to one page!

You Have

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
• Familiarity with — and ideally experience using — current and emerging AI creation tools (Chat-GPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E)
• 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: