"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."
No, seriously - I can't possibly overstate the value in my life that has come from the internet or how it has enriched me.
Like Ed Zitron & @pluralistic have both written about at various times, I'm not mad at technology - I'm fucking furious at the fuckfaces who deliberately ruined it, just so they could squat their ignoble asses upon a mountain of riches like the shittiest, saddest little saggy dragons imaginable.
not only that but CVS doesn't allow you to easily give this feedback. It's like the suits are killing their own business and they don't care enough to get valuable feedback from the people that they should care about. I guess that's why they will go out of business.. Circular loop of #enshittification
omg.. I went to CVS this past weekend and the cashier was running two screens where the customer had to look up their account to get their medicine. The touch screen was horrible so it took a lot of effort to use. The cashier was taking over half the time. It was completely inefficient and made us all cranky. This was in my local target which has become completely useless. Who is running these companies? #enshittification 10000%
FTA: "Businesses don't hire enough workers because that makes them more profitable. It's not because 'no one wants to work anymore' (though doubtless repeating that fairy tale helps shift the blame for long lines and poor service from real, greedy bosses to imaginary, greedy workers)."
I bought the English version, as ebook. Only disadvantage, I couldn't get a signed copy
Great to support the author directly and obtain the book in 3 formats: pdf, mobi and ePub. Say bye to plutocratic lock-in enshittificators! Welcome pluralism, also in formats.
My meebook Android powered ereader even allows me to receive these files
It was good to meet in person and have dinner together. Agreed that we need to prepare better, collectively, against these bastards, and be ready for when things get (even) worse.
My genuine hope is that this can spark a broader change. Empower communities on other platforms, and see this become a grassroots movement of users deciding whether AI should be welcome in their communities, and to what extent. On their own terms.
A pushback against the #enshittification and forceful push of AI by so many companies in these last few years.
amb Simona Levi A Mierdificación (Capitán Swing), Cory Doctorow exposa els símptomes, el diagnòstic i la cura per a un Internet en plena metàstasi. Doctorow conversarà amb Simona Levi (XNet).
Recently the Norwegian Consumer Council Forbrukerradet published a report and a fun video about #Enshittification, the terrible process of BigTech locking in users, and then businesses while making worse and worse the service itself.
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.
When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.
I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏
This video was released by #Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian #Consumer Council, a few days ago
It imagines the career trajectory of an "enshittificator"
It was hard for him to enshittify minor aspects of daily life in person, but became easy for him to do so at scale once he embraced the #Internet and #technology
The Norwegian Consumer Council is an independent, governmentally funded organisation that advocates for consumer’s rights. It should be easy for consumers to make sustainable choices every day.
However, in the age of #FakeNews and "#AlternativeFacts, I think it is of utmost importance to provide the sources, so readers can review the sources.
Alas, politicians and other prominent people from business and show business keep using the exaspering #X, so utterly avoiding the content risks missing out on important news.
I do not support any state- or #BigTech sponsored #SocialMedia. As linking back to them generates hits, likes, retweets, and ultimately cash for them, I am not (direktly) linking the them (here: #TikTok).
I've striven to provide all content provided on these #TechnoFeudalist / #Authoritarian web sites here in the Fediverse. (Which was 50x as much work...
...down pictures and videos from the #Gulf region from any but the "legacy media," aka "#MainstreamMedia!
PS:
If #Elmo were #Donald, he'd be throwing an incomparable tantrum. - A request: for those of you still on #X for "explorative" reasons, could you please post screenshot of #Elmo's tweets regarding the self-generated, automatic "#HyperEnshittifcation?!?"--I'd appreciate it.
...monetization #scheme must be so massive, as to warrant these severe measures for any platform, drastic for the "#FreeSpeech" absolutists that they are in dangerous of alieanating some of there best money spinners (who deal in, you guessed again...#FakeNews.)
This is tragicomic! It would be epical, if #Elmo had to shut...
...EN MASSE #ElonMusk's #SM platform, #X (formerly #Twitter) from the plight and distress of the #Iranian and other peoples in the now war-torn #MiddleEast
👉 Please note the irony, though: The business model of the world's biggest spreader of #FakeNews is apparently severely threatened by, you guessed it, the epitome of #FakeNews--#AI-generated content!👈
"#X has said it has started suspending accounts which were flooding the platform with fake videos alleging to show situations on the ground in #Iran and the #MiddleEast which they claim "99%" were made to trigger monetisation of the content."
The internet, #X in particular, is being flooded w/ (#AI generated) #Fake content about the #WarInTheMiddleEast. - Please compare the 3 posts from tiktok.com/@bbcnews below: to the left - what really happened, right what did NOT happen: #BurjKhalifa was not attacked.
Pls. check out the #AltText - it contains the original texts from #BBC 1):
