#enshittification

#enshittification

"There's this bullshit that we're seeing from Meta and OpenAI and others where they decided that somehow we're better off with all AI-created social media content," Rabble said in an interview with Business Insider. "That's not where social media came from. Social media was social first. It's about humans and our connection, not just pretty videos."

My phone was a few meters away in the living room and I rushed over like I had forgotten a burning turkey in the oven to make sure that I got to the phone before the second ad started playing. I tapped that lower-right hand skip button and the tension in my body temporarily melted away as I made my way back to the chore and continued listening to my podcast.

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."