Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agoWould it be correct to say that enshittification is the physical manifestation of the economic ai bubble bursting?message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down17
arrow-up126arrow-down1message-squareWould it be correct to say that enshittification is the physical manifestation of the economic ai bubble bursting?Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squarePumpkinSkink@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoEnshittification is a theory of what Cory Doctrow (the guy who coined the term) calls “Platform Decay”. It has three steps. Make a good platform for users by offering a service and usually aggressive interoperability with other similar services to reduce switching costs. Once users are locked in by network effects, make their experience worse to the benefit of Advertisers Once the advertisers are locked in due to network effects make their experience worse to the benefit of investors or other equity holders. Ok now your platform sucks but everyone ia trapped there. Id argue most LLM services are still in stage 1.
Enshittification is a theory of what Cory Doctrow (the guy who coined the term) calls “Platform Decay”. It has three steps.
Make a good platform for users by offering a service and usually aggressive interoperability with other similar services to reduce switching costs.
Once users are locked in by network effects, make their experience worse to the benefit of Advertisers
Once the advertisers are locked in due to network effects make their experience worse to the benefit of investors or other equity holders.
Ok now your platform sucks but everyone ia trapped there.
Id argue most LLM services are still in stage 1.