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Man, enshittification is happening so fast for ai. Imagine the next big thing. It'll be enshittified prior to release.
They forgot the first step where you make a great product that everyone's clamoring to use.
This isn't enshittification in the traditional sense, they haven't captured the market enough for that. They're just panicking because they're burning cash way too fast.
That word is only used correctly about 5% of the times it is used.
Enshittification strategies only work if the product actually produces revenue and it grows along with market share. Unfortunately, even if market use grows, revenue from AI is not there. Even YouTube crossed the break even boundary before the start of ad enshittification and after the Google buyout. LLMs financial projections are starting to show that it will never reach enough revenue to cover costs, much less cover ROI into infrastructure and capacity. The math isn't mathing and investors are starting to get cold feet. So they either enshittify now or the capital soon will start vanishing.
It'll be a macguffin that makes your life a little more convenient in some ways, but it'll cost the equivalent of a 1996 Honda Civic to use monthly and you have to smash your hand with a hammer to turn it on
As a mod for the Enshitification you hate to see Enshitification in any form.
As a mod of Fuck_AI, I'll make an exception in this one case.
COMMENCE THE ENSHITIFICATION!!!!
Which completely goes against my Enshitification mod mindset, but here we are.
So....nobody told me life was going to be this way.....
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