As he does so often, @doctorow nails it in his blog post:

"Here is how #platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

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@dangillmor @doctorow Is there a problem with that? The dying bit, I mean.