Enshittification of AI
Importance: 4 | # | near, openai, forecasting
near:
I’m glad most of my timeline realizes openAI is being very silly here and i think they should be honest about what they are doing and why
but one thing not realized is things like this work on normal people. they don’t even know what an LLM or finetuning or aA/B testing is.
a lot of great engineers involved in this who unfortunately have no idea what that which they are building is going to be turned into over the next few years. zoom out and consider if you are doing something deeply and thoughtfully good or if you’re just being used for something
the thing that turned every app into short form video that is addictive af and makes people miserable is going to happen to LLMs and 2025 and 2026 is the year we exit the golden age (for consumers that is! people like us who can program and research and build will do great)
poisoning the well speedrun, sigh
