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My proposition — we should coin a new term for a subset of enshittification for this new trend of turning every UI into an AI chat  

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gtpfication
0%
perplexification
0%
crapception
66.7%
much better option (leave in comments)
33.3%
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@strider

My term for this is encrapsulation

@nikunashi, would you fancy elaborate more on the origin/backstory of your version? 

@strider

Encapsulation is a common programming term to describe hiding or preventing access to details of a structure to make it easier to use correctly, reason about it, and reduce bugs. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_programming)

En*crap*sulation is then the technique of wrapping something that works in a layer of AI (crap) and, while it also hides details, it generally makes the wrapped thing more or less useless.

Encapsulation (computer programming) - Wikipedia

@strider

I suggested it in thread a few years ago specifically about enshittification related neologism, but it seems folks have been using the term outside of AI examples to just mean wrapping up bad code or adding a bad wrap to good code.

@nikunashi, thanks for the explanation  

Yeah, I see how it can be tempting to use this term to refer to general behaviour rather than specifically AI related