Mike Masnick ✅Following on @pluralistic's brilliant article about the "enshittification" process of companies, I added in something that I thought was missing from Cory's analysis: the role of "The Friedman Doctrine" that the only thing companies should work for are maximizing profits for shareholders... and highlighting how that leaves out not just other stakeholders, but the important variable of "over what time frame."
kingdom krumb@mmasnick @pluralistic This encapsulates a lot of things I've been thinking about. If Wikipedia were a public company it would be trying to get us to shop and bank through their site by now. Instead it just remains awesome.
ideaPDish@kingdomkrumb @mmasnick @pluralistic
agree.. Wiki++
So what happens when ChatAIBOT get's it's claws on it and it starts writing false or misleading artickes in an authoritive way.?.
agree.. Wiki++
So what happens when ChatAIBOT get's it's claws on it and it starts writing false or misleading artickes in an authoritive way.?.
@ipd @mmasnick @pluralistic I don't know. But my prediction is that AI will be used both by those trying to undermine it and by those trying to protect it.
@kingdomkrumb @mmasnick @pluralistic
Discodains vs illuminatis.. a classic tail. one group makes dry clothes wet and the other make wet clothes dry....
Now at the speed of bots.
(jetson robot rosie sigh noise)
@kingdomkrumb @mmasnick @pluralistic
I miss the days when google would return the same items whenever I searched on specific terms, deterministic, it was called.
I miss the days when google would return the same items whenever I searched on specific terms, deterministic, it was called.
Domestic Supply 
@kingdomkrumb @ipd @mmasnick @pluralistic I was an early contributor to Wikipedia, I still occasionally provide small updates. I'm currently exploring some ways to use AI to improve it.
Mike Garuccio@ipd @kingdomkrumb @mmasnick @pluralistic
In a contest of AI vs Wikipedia editors I’ll take the editors any day.