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To #TechBros, #DigitalEverything lovers out there gushing at Microsoft’s #AI #CoPilot announcement yesterday - what abt the toxic dark matter of AI in your office tools? Did we stop to think abt this in all the raving & getting on the “I’m gonna be an Expert" bandwagon? A thread.
Yes, #AI has oodles of great stuff in it. I know. Yes, lots of business processes will change in the coming months & years to take advantage of the AI wave.
This week on my #podcast, I read #Twiddler, a recent @Medium column in which I delve more deeply into #enshittification, and how it is a pathology of digital platforms, distinct from the rent-seeking of the analog world that preceded it:
doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9… 1/
doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9… 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/kno… 2/
pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/kno… 2/
Enshittification, you'll recall, is the lifecycle of the online platform: first, the platform allocates #surpluses to end-users; then, once users are locked in, those surpluses are taken away and given to business-customers. 3/
