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    Vergib ihnen niemals: Warum sich alles Digitale so kaputt anfühlt und warum es immer schlimmer zu werden scheint

    https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

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    2. GarfPlagueis on

      These companies have given up on pretending to enhance our lives and they’re racing to create as many addicts within their walled gardens as possible. By discouraging external links, they’re dividing the web into fiefdoms, rather than creating a vast interconnected vibrant network. The Internet has never felt so barren.

    3. Skullkan6 on

      This article is important. Bias is present, but so are facts in abundance.

    4. Toad32 on

      This is a great explanation of how technology companies and end users no longer have aligned incentives.

      They don’t update to help you – they update to help themselves to more revenue at all costs. (enshitification)

    5. SlapNuts007 on

      Someone called /r/technology readers Luddites but then chickened out and deleted their comment.

      There’s nothing the Ed is arguing against in that post that marks him or anyone who agrees with him as a Luddite. The last 5 years, _at least_, of Big Tech has been actively hostile to anyone trying to actually use the very real technological advancements that gained Big Tech its audience in the first place. Nobody is saying we should just turn the internet off; we’d just like it to be fucking useful for a change.

      And I think you can level this criticism at AI. I’m not against AI in principle… the current implementation is deeply problematic, and I agree there’s a plateauing of utility vs. cost going on, and it remains to be seen if that can be overcome.

      To use the Luddite comparison, the automated looms produced more output at an acceptable, but in some ways worse, quality than could be done by hand. AI is similar… it can scratch the surface of replacing certain job responsibilities, or some jobs outright (elevator music creators are doomed), and it’ll likely get better at that. There’s an argument to be had about how that’s rolled out, but there’s not much room to argue that it shouldn’t be used at all because jobs. How we adapt to it is another question.

      But this AI slop phenomenon? And companies like Meta leaning into it and intentionally polluting their platform with it? That’s not real progress. It’s costly, consumer-hostile bullshit. That’s what Ed is on about.

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