Wendy NatherTheory (which is mine) (and what it is, too): Enshittification has led directly to acceptance of LLMs, because the public is already used to software that is unfit for purpose.
The Great Llama 
@wendynather @pluralistic
Yep. Search engines too: people used to search for an answer, now they ask an LLM. They didn't start doing it because they wanted a machine to think for them, they started because they stopped getting useful search results.
Yep. Search engines too: people used to search for an answer, now they ask an LLM. They didn't start doing it because they wanted a machine to think for them, they started because they stopped getting useful search results.
ℍ𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕆𝕨𝕟𝕡𝕦𝕥𝕖𝕣@wendynather @pluralistic the sad truth is that most of the time LLMs do give you a more useful answer than a search results page that's heavily games by SEO slop and stuffed full of ads. And when it fails to do so, it usually fails gracefully such that you still feel as somewhat satisfied with it. Which is what makes it insidious, because the shortcomings are less obvious.