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Don't wanna be "that guy", but if if 95% of the time people use it to generally mean "greedy companies making things shitty to try and wring an extra buck", then that just is what that word means now.
It leaves a vacuum for the concept it was originally intended to describe, but that's how she goes.
I guess so. But the original definition was useful and encapsulated a specific thing. And then everyone discarding that definition is a bummer. But it’s not like there is anything to be done about it. And Doctoro has said he’s not too annoyed by it himself.
I wholeheartedly agree. I love when I hear a new word, and a mushy concept just snaps into focus. Like, yea, I understood that concept in my "gut" but had not special word for it? So gratifying.
Feels like theft when it gets appropriated to something else.
Glad to hear Cory is cool w/ it. Putting a word (even by accident) to a poorly-expresable part of the human experience that let's people communicate more effectively? That is a contribution to society that most of us only dream of. Fucker did it by accident. Thrilled for him.
I don't think saying AI is being enshittified is too far from the orignal essay
The AI companies were definitely subsidizing usage of the tech in the hopes of getting people locked in. Don't think people are all that locked in. Probably some people are, suppliers like NVIDIA seem pretty locked in. But I don't think there's all that much to direct to shareholders relative to what they put into it to try to get lock in.
So it's kinda failed enshittification? Premature enshittification... preshittification?
It's just enshittification, like what are we talking about? They're making the product shittier to raise margins, period.
You bastard.. it's perfect
It's ironic, but I could care less. You're literally beating a dead horse.