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AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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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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Paraphrased because I watched it this morning, but that really stuck out to me.
The pace that they can slop this out is so fast that everything authentically human is going to be buried unless sites make a concentrated effort to separate our AI from everything else.
Like the Pinterest lady was saying, it's already so bad that every picture on her feed is AI. Pinterest didn't fence off the AI, and like a weed it's choked out everything else. If you don't like AI, you're going to leave because all you get is AI.
And the people who stay, will keep engaging with the AI slop.
It's a death spiral, eventually the only ones left will be bots. Because the less humans engaging with the AI accounts, the less real feedback they get. Like, were not that far off from AI making posts the bots like and ignoring humans, because real humans will be a statistically insignificant percentage of those sutes.
The entire Internet will be AI slop, made by bots, for the sole purpose of getting upvotes from other bots. No humans necessary, just burning the planet down for no fucking reason.