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Cory Doctorow: AI boom is 'enshittification' before market pop

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Cory Doctorow, in a YouTube interview, posits that the current AI boom is a form of "enshittification," a process where platforms extract maximum value after market saturation. He argues that AI represents the stage after all other avenues for exploitation have been exhausted. This perspective frames the AI industry's rapid growth as a precursor to a market collapse or a period of intense exploitation. AI

IMPACT Frames the current AI boom as a potentially unsustainable phase of market exploitation.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a named credible voice discussing the AI industry.

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Cory Doctorow: AI boom is 'enshittification' before market pop

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    This is how the AI bubble pops | Cory Doctorow - YouTube https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=LiDUg_uylyM Interview with @ pluralistic “If enshitificaiton is what y

    This is how the AI bubble pops | Cory Doctorow - YouTube https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=LiDUg_uylyM Interview with @ pluralistic “If enshitificaiton is what you do when you’ve grown your market all you can and then you squeeze it, then AI is what happens when you run out of squ…

    LINKS youtube.com/watch mamot.fr/@pluralistic

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