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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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The website style looks AI-generated.
Your red flags are correct. This website is made by an AI-using, AI-loving, Palantir employee.
Unfortunate so many people will actually read (or pretend to read) this post and say "yeah I loved ingesting that content actually", but welcome to Lemmy where all you need is a snappy title and a couple bullet points separated by commas!
You are exaggerating a bit too much. Sure, sometimes AI can write good stuff, my 2 problems with it are ethics and slop.
it is unethical, trained from stolen data, and sloppy(stupid), needs human editing/intervention.
This website seems like slop.
I do that sometimes, but I dont claim to read the article then. Bullet points help me know what I should expect from the article, to deduce how interesting it is, and if its worth my time or not.
Idk. Just looks like a template was used.
Most web software comes with templates.
The website content is overlong, tedious, and sure looks AI-generated.
The website content fails AI generation tests...
The website content is thoroughly researched and well documented from public information and corporate filings.
Mary Shelley failed an AI generation test too.
If you could be convinced that the website is filled with paragraphs of needless AI-generated text, how would you be convinced?
If the answer is "nothing" then I guess it'd be impossible to convince you anything online is AI, and that's worthless for discourse...
Nothing from you will convince me of anything.
I don’t generally listen to people who make a determination and then work backwards to try and prove it. Or people who dismiss the content of things for some arbitrary reason like “they used AI tools, hurr durr, AI bad”.
Maybe you could be less lazy and link to the ongoing discussion (since you want discourse) in Hacker News, or better yet go participate there yourself.
Or you could point out that Keyana Sapp works in an AI field at Palantir instead of outright dismissing the content which is both accurate and directly relevant to a Lemmy community called enshittification.
If nothing can convince you of the truth, then that's pathetic. I'm sorry you're so unreasonable
It's even worse that you knowingly would come out swinging in defense of AI slop written by a Palantir thug, out of apparently nothing more than a bruised ego. Surely the person who pasted that text can be held responsible for making a worse site on purpose.