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Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 point 15 hours ago (1 child)

Your red flags are correct. This website is made by an AI-using, AI-loving, Palantir employee.

Unfortunate so many people will actually read (or pretend to read) this post and say "yeah I loved ingesting that content actually", but welcome to Lemmy where all you need is a snappy title and a couple bullet points separated by commas!

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[–] JerryMerweather@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago*

You are exaggerating a bit too much. Sure, sometimes AI can write good stuff, my 2 problems with it are ethics and slop.

it is unethical, trained from stolen data, and sloppy(stupid), needs human editing/intervention.

This website seems like slop.

Unfortunate so many people will actually read (or pretend to read) this post and say “yeah I loved ingesting that content actually”, but welcome to Lemmy where all you need is a snappy title and a couple bullet points separated by commas!

I do that sometimes, but I dont claim to read the article then. Bullet points help me know what I should expect from the article, to deduce how interesting it is, and if its worth my time or not.

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