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Doctorow: AI will follow search engines into 'enshittification'

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Cory Doctorow argues that search engines have degraded over time as companies prioritized profit over accuracy, a phenomenon he terms "enshittification." He predicts that artificial intelligence will follow a similar trajectory, becoming worse over time due to similar commercial pressures. AI

IMPACT Predicts AI degradation due to commercial pressures, mirroring search engine trends.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a named credible voice (Cory Doctorow) discussing AI and search engines.

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Doctorow: AI will follow search engines into 'enshittification'

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · TCatInReality ·

    @ futurebird @ raymaccarthy @ janbogar Search engines became worse over time because the companies prioritised profits over accuracy (Doctorow talks about this

    @ futurebird @ raymaccarthy @ janbogar Search engines became worse over time because the companies prioritised profits over accuracy (Doctorow talks about this in # Enshittification ). In due course, and faster than you'd think, # AI will do the same.

    LINKS sauropods.win/@futurebird mastodon.ie/@raymaccarthy mastodonczech.cz/@janbogar

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