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Oh FUCK YOU, Microsoft, what fresh hell is this? This just started turning up today. Whenever I start or click into a different paragraph. And there's apparently no way to turn off the "alert" bug in 365 for MacOS.
Welp. Unless I can learn to ignore it, this may be the thing that pushes me over the edge into using Open Office. (Is that the current best open replacement for Word?)
Don't blame authors if their writing is accompanied by AI-generated illustrations. Unless self-published, we rarely have any say in what images accompany our work. That being said, I'm no longer interested in sending my work off to a certain magazine now that it started using AI for illustrations. #AI #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #LitMags #enshittification #AISlop
I have been involved with the tech industry since the early 1980s - first as an employee and always as a user. It was fun and interesting and opened so many doors to me. Now, I avoid it as much as I can and choose carefully - weeding my tech garden aggressively.
“…The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma. We seem, as a society, capable of understanding that social media can hurt us, unsettle us, or make us feel crazed and angry, but I think it’s time to accept that the rest of the tech ecosystem undermines our wellbeing in an equally-insidious way. And most people don’t know it’s happening, because everybody has accepted deeply shitty conditions for the last ten years…”
#enshittification #tech https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
So Macquarie chose @pluralistic #enshittification as their word of the year last week and now Oxford chose "brain rot."
I can't help but feel there are two very different perspectives at play here: while "enshittification" correctly points the finger at the source (i.e. the services that are shittified), "brain rot" places the blame solely on the consumer, who "overconsumes material considered to be trivial or unchallenging" that just seems to somehow magically appear on their feeds.
Well, at least it's not telling people to eat poisonous mushrooms or make chlorine gas. #AI #enshittification #knitting #sex #yarn
The ultimate #Google self-own: Google's AI Overview result of "enshittified google" that includes "AI Overview" as an example of enshittified Google.
In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism …
Late-stage capitalism has given way to cloud-based fiefs, and we are the serfs. I need convincing on some of the detail (e.g. how effective are they at manipulating our desires?), but mostly agree with his main argument. Pairs well with Cory Doctorow's #enshittification ideas (@pluralistic@mamot.fr).
I just saw the toot about the 'Honest Government' videos by
It reminded me about this one, which, as always with them, is bang on the money:
@nina_kali_nina I ultimately got so frustrated with LinkedIn I had to deactivate my account. They offer no way to actually prevent people from contacting you who you don't know and don't want to hear from. Effectively, recruiters and recruiting firms can pay to bypass your privacy settings, and there's nothing you can do to stop them.
The only way to win is not to play.
Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and …
Four dystopian novellas about the worst parts of Western society: #enshittification, systemic #racism, dysfunctional #healthcare and sociopathic preppers. Gets increasingly dark.
When you search for “mastodon” in the iPhone App Store, the top result is an ad for Truth Social #enshittification
POV: You're browsing the web in 2024:
"139 GPT-fabricated, questionable papers were found and listed as regular results on the Google Scholar results page."
Google Scholar is disseminating AI-generated scientific-looking papers, contaminating scientific discussions and potentially manipulating policy discussions on health and the environment
So, have you ever thought your devices were listening to what you were saying, and then ads for that thing would show up...and all the pundits kept telling us it was coincidence and we were just seeing patterns because people seek patterns?
Yeah...naw. @404mediaco in their tradition of breaking all kinds of news, would like to tell you that you're not insane, and the pundits were wrong.
404 brings receipts: Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners.
MindSift boasted about targeting advertisements by listening to peoples’ everyday conversations through microphones in their smart speakers.
Here's the deck, read it for yourself: https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/
(free signup may be required, iirc, but if you've got spare change, consider subscribing too. They're doing yeoman's work out …
So, have you ever thought your devices were listening to what you were saying, and then ads for that thing would show up...and all the pundits kept telling us it was coincidence and we were just seeing patterns because people seek patterns?
Yeah...naw. @404mediaco in their tradition of breaking all kinds of news, would like to tell you that you're not insane, and the pundits were wrong.
404 brings receipts: Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners.
MindSift boasted about targeting advertisements by listening to peoples’ everyday conversations through microphones in their smart speakers.
Here's the deck, read it for yourself: https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/
(free signup may be required, iirc, but if you've got spare change, consider subscribing too. They're doing yeoman's work out here on the data front.)
#Enshittification
