AI won't reverse enshitification, but it is one solution in this sense:
The internet is too far gone. It's all bots and advertising and disinformation and exploitation and data harvesting. People still seem to trust content on the internet for some reason. AI will sort that out by making the internet so unreliable, people will have to distrust it to the extent they should.
True, I was really surprised by the amount of people that I considered at least relatively intelligent putting way too much trust in llms answers. I don't think there's any hope for humanity anymore and I'm just waiting for skynet to take over now.
Honestly if someone is competent enough to put together skynet, I think that might be an improvement.
More likely we'll get a shitty chatbot that some tech bro claims is skynet and the world will fall to the absolute worst, buggiest AI overlord imaginable. It'll be an unholy fusion of Terminator and Idiocracy.
I've seen everyone using AI at work and it's bad. They're clueless and just trust it implicitly. I've had to correct many mistakes, even made by IT admins who should really know better.
I'd go so far as to say my imposter syndrome has outright died after watching the ineptitude of people as they let AI tooling rot their work.
Enshittification is about maximizing revenue, typically in a way that destroys your product. Examples are ads on subscription video streaming services. Another good example is how some music artists say no to getting paid by Spotify and Spotify then suggests those songs more and collects the money that would have gone to that artist.
How the fuck is AI going to do anything about that? Are we talking Skynet, end of the world type thing? That should do it.
One of the reasons it's a bad word - it was inevitably going to just be used by people to mean "this thing I personally don't like", which is useless as a term of discussion.
Is he saying that AI is going to help us reverse engineer the closed source firmwares of all the ewaste devices that are thrown away every day? Because that's something I could applaud.
We should have some intermediate protocol for the Internet that on the one hand requires identification to get in and the ability to be licked out by a majority, whilst at the same time guaranteeing anonymity on what sites are being visited and what is being read
Reminds me of that video this guy made, "translating" the new iphone release promo video. It was hilarious, and he used 'delulu' in that video and it just made it that much better.
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AI won't reverse enshitification, but it is one solution in this sense:
The internet is too far gone. It's all bots and advertising and disinformation and exploitation and data harvesting. People still seem to trust content on the internet for some reason. AI will sort that out by making the internet so unreliable, people will have to distrust it to the extent they should.
It's really optimistic to think that the greater public will start to think of LLMs output as unreliable and not trustworthy some day.
True, I was really surprised by the amount of people that I considered at least relatively intelligent putting way too much trust in llms answers. I don't think there's any hope for humanity anymore and I'm just waiting for skynet to take over now.
Honestly if someone is competent enough to put together skynet, I think that might be an improvement.
More likely we'll get a shitty chatbot that some tech bro claims is skynet and the world will fall to the absolute worst, buggiest AI overlord imaginable. It'll be an unholy fusion of Terminator and Idiocracy.
I've seen everyone using AI at work and it's bad. They're clueless and just trust it implicitly. I've had to correct many mistakes, even made by IT admins who should really know better.
I'd go so far as to say my imposter syndrome has outright died after watching the ineptitude of people as they let AI tooling rot their work.
What models specifically?
Yeah commercial/mainstream internet is such garbage now. I stay away from those spots as much as I can help it.
Kill me now.
I poured muscle milk on my server instead of upgrading my GPU so that I could self-host my own LLM. Ask me how that's going!
How is it going?
Pourly
Can't wait for the Fight Milk powered AI!
Now with extra crow eggs!
Enshittification is about maximizing revenue, typically in a way that destroys your product. Examples are ads on subscription video streaming services. Another good example is how some music artists say no to getting paid by Spotify and Spotify then suggests those songs more and collects the money that would have gone to that artist.
How the fuck is AI going to do anything about that? Are we talking Skynet, end of the world type thing? That should do it.
One of the reasons it's a bad word - it was inevitably going to just be used by people to mean "this thing I personally don't like", which is useless as a term of discussion.
Ahahahahaa!!! I worked with that dude 10 years ago. He was a dickhead then, too.
Do you have any interesting stories with this guy?
Is he saying that AI is going to help us reverse engineer the closed source firmwares of all the ewaste devices that are thrown away every day? Because that's something I could applaud.
I'm so excited for AI-driven RE. I say this as an reverse engineer myself.
How. Exactly how...?
Because you're literally saying that this shiny turd could be the lever to reverse enshittification.
So I'd love to know exactly how you were going to do this.
or some community funded, open source, free version of this could be made
We should have some intermediate protocol for the Internet that on the one hand requires identification to get in and the ability to be licked out by a majority, whilst at the same time guaranteeing anonymity on what sites are being visited and what is being read
Yeah, the lever that turns of AI
like taking a laxative when you have diarrhea so you can shit it all out faster
Says the dude regularly shitting his unsubstantiated opinions on linkedin.
Delulu.
Reminds me of that video this guy made, "translating" the new iphone release promo video. It was hilarious, and he used 'delulu' in that video and it just made it that much better.
LundIn lunatics
Bless your heart paul lundin.
It certainly works better than Google, not that that's a high bar.