enshittification
A pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Vendors first create high quality offerings to attract users, then degrade such offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize shareholder profits
Here’s the thing: Whatever you think of capitalism, the evidence is overwhelming: Social networks with a single proprietor have trouble with long-term survival, and those do survive have trouble with user-experience quality: see Enshittification.
Enshittification can be thought of as the result of a lack of consequences. Whether you are tempted by greed or pressured by people who have lower ethics than you, the more it costs to compromise, the fewer compromises you'll make.
In other words, to resist enshittification, you have to impose switching costs on yourself .
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Enshittification is the result of the decision to center plans on the organization and not on the customer, because profits extracted from cutting costs are easier than continuing to create value.
Low retention is the result of over-emphasis on business goals
Low margin is the result of over-delivering on customer goals
IAs generativas são ótimas para tirar dúvidas triviais, algo que se tornou inviável no Google, onde crescemos fazendo esse tipo de pesquisa, pelos incentivos do próprio Google para a infestação de sites de baixa qualidade — o proverbial tiro no próprio pé.
As inteligências artificiais se mostram alternativas melhores aos sites de busca como o Google, porque este tem levado cada vez mais a conteúdo duvidoso e de baixa qualidade. Mas com os modelos de linguagem se alimentando destes mesmos sites de gosto e veracidade duvidosos, não será apenas questão de tempo até que os resultados de IA também sejam vítimas de enshitification?
This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.
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