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If corporations are a form of slow AI, then what @pluralistic calls #enshittification is indicative of an "alignment problem", when the objective function (paperclip maximization) is persued by destructive means. And like all alignment problems, it has to do with a lack of, or the wrong, constraints.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

Pluralistic: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search (24 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Urzl
Urzl
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I've been saying for a couple of years now, corporations are the inhuman competing species we've been afraid AI would become.

We are both dray animals and livestock to this predator and it's winning the evolutionary arms race against us.

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Matt Palmer
Matt Palmer
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@supermathie OMFG I didn't know Raghavan had previously been head of search at *Yahoo*, of all places. That's roughly equivalent to, say, Cunard hiring the iceberg as its head of North Atlantic Operations.
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