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aug 9, 2025, 12:16 am • 0 0 • view

Speed running back to cable

aug 8, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view

They forgot to polish the Altman answers this time

aug 8, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view

An incredible speed run

aug 8, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view

You know I pretty much always agree with you, but how does one enshittify that which was never good to begin with?

aug 8, 2025, 7:33 pm • 2 0 • view

How can a thing that exists to enshitten other things become enshittened itself?

aug 8, 2025, 11:10 pm • 4 0 • view

Enshitception

aug 8, 2025, 11:53 pm • 5 1 • view

I'm an artist so I stay tf away from AI. $200 fucking dollars a month?!

aug 9, 2025, 6:42 am • 1 0 • view

From linkedin:

Trying Claude Code with the Chrome MCP today to loop on some UI bugs and even with my $200/mo Max sub it burned through all of my Opus credits in just two hours.

aug 10, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 2 • view

Seems practical. Lmao.

aug 10, 2025, 11:18 pm • 2 0 • view

"We can still make money with this... this wasn't a collapsing market from the beginning... we can still make money with this... this wasn't a collapsing market from the beginning... we can still..." —GenAI companies

aug 8, 2025, 7:40 pm • 3 0 • view

Any parent who embraces #AI is dooming their child’s passions to irrelevance.

aug 8, 2025, 7:05 pm • 5 1 • view

aug 9, 2025, 12:13 am • 4 0 • view

I'm confused. I don't use these but I watched a coworker messing around with some MCP integrations and 4o is still accessible. Maybe they just hid it from the end user product for "user experience" reasons?

aug 8, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view

I'm curious if this is because energy and storage costs are finally catching up to them. This tech is not cheap to run.

aug 8, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view

Yes on the energy. The driving force in research in the last couple of years has been in more efficient models than what the OpenAI GPT series was doing. By all accounts they made GPT5 perform more efficiently than their legacy models. Basically, trying to make it work without so much energy...

aug 9, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view

And I can't really get mad at them for trying to consume less energy while servicing the customer. They need to go that route to become profitable. Open models, of which OpenAI just released two, are getting great results on tiny hardware.

aug 9, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view

With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has fully committed to enshittifying its subscription products, removing the ability to choose which model you use on *any* paid ChatGPT subscription, though Pro users *may* still have some access. Users hate the new models. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has fully committed to enshittifying its consumer and business subscription products, arbitrarily moving free users to a cheaper model and limiting their ability to generate images, and removing the ability to choose which model you use in its $20, $35 and “enterprise” subscriptions, moving any and all choice to its “team” and $200-a-month “pro” subscriptions. OpenAI’s justification is an exercise in faux-altruism, framing “taking away all choice” as a “real-time router that quickly decides which [model] to use.” ChatGPT Plus and Team members now mostly have access to two models — GPT-5 and GPT-5-Thinking — down from the six they had before. This distinction is quite significant. Where users once could get hundreds of messages a day on OpenAI’s o4-mini-high and o4-mini reasoning models, GPT-5 for ChatGPT Plus subscribers offers 200 reasoning (GPT-5-thinking) messages a week, with 80 GPT-5 messages every 3 hours which allow you to ask it to “think” about its answer, shoving you over to an undisclosed reasoning model. This may seem like a good deal, OpenAI is likely putting you on the cheapest model whenever it can in the name of “the best choice.” While Team accounts have “unlimited” access to GPT-5, they still face the same 200-reasoning-messages-a-week limit, and while yes, you could ask it to “think” more, do you think that OpenAI is going to give you their best reasoning models? Or will they, as they said, “bring together the best of their previous models” and “choose the right one for the job”?

Let's see how users feel! An intrepid Better Offline listener pulled together some snippets from r/ChatGPT, where users are mourning the loss of GPT-4o, furious at the loss of other models and calling GPT-5, in one case,

aug 8, 2025, 5:25 pm • 120 13 • view

OpenAI also expanded its priority processing to ALL developers - not just their enterprise customers - suggesting they intend to start rate limiting/throttling those who don't pay a toll. And they're limiting access to just GPT-5 - restricting developer choice. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Yet OpenAI isn’t just screwing over consumers. Developers that want to integrate OpenAI’s model now have access to “priority processing” — previously an enterprise-only feature (see this archive from July 21st 2025) to guarantee low latency and uptime. While this sounds like something altruistic, or a new beneficial feature, I’m not convinced. I believe there’s only one reason to do this: that OpenAI intends to, or will be forced to due to capacity constraints, start degrading access to its API. As with every model developer, we have no real understanding of what may or may not lead to needing “reliable, high-speed performance” from API access, but the suggestion here is that failing to pay OpenAI’s troll toll will put your API access in the hole. That toll is harsh, too, nearly doubling the API price on each model, and while the Priority Processing Page has pricing for all manner of models, its pricing page reduces the options down to two models — GPT-5 and GPT-5-mini, suggesting it may not intend to provide priority access in perpetuity. OpenAI is far from alone in turning the screws on its customers. As I’ll explain, effectively every consumer generative AI company has started some sort of $200-a-month “pro” plan — Perplexity Max, Gemini ($249.99 a month before discounts), Cursor Ultra, Grok Heavy (which is $300 a month!), and, of course, Anthropic, whose $100-a-month and $200-a-month plans allowed Claude Code users to spend anywhere from 100% to 10,000% of their monthly subscription in API calls. This led to rate limits starting August 28 2025 — a conveniently-placed date to allow Anthropic to close as much as $5 billion in funding before its users churn.

aug 8, 2025, 5:25 pm • 75 8 • view

GPT-5's "model selector" is a rate limit in disguise, selecting "the right model for the job" while obfuscating if the model in question is a cheaper, worse option. It also dramatically reduces the amount of messages a ChatGPT subscriber can send. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

GPT-5”s “Model Router” Is A Rate Limit In Disguise For Both Free and Paid Users And Shows OpenAI Is Trying To Cut Costs GPT-5 does away with the “model selector” — to quote WIRED’s Kylie Robison, “...users will no longer need to choose between models, as the chat interface now automatically routes to the right version depending on the complexity of the query and the user’s subscription tier.” To be clear, this means that anything under the $200-a-month ChatGPT subscription will choose for you (though you can ask it to “think,” apparently) rather than letting you specify one particular model. This is an attempt to reduce the costs of a user’s subscription by making it impossible for a user to choose what model they think might be best. Furthermore, OpenAI is already planning to limit free users: To quote Alex Heath at The Verge: OpenAI is making GPT-5 available immediately to all ChatGPT users. However, there is an undisclosed cap on prompts for free users, at which point the model router will fall back to a less powerful, “mini” version. This is actually a very specific pale horse. Rate limits on free users, who make up the majority of ChatGPT’s supposed 700 million weekly active users, signify that OpenAI is trying to reduce costs. At any time, because OpenAI does not publish the usage cap that would downgrade you, OpenAI can decide to put free users on its GPT-5-Mini model — a much cheaper and less-effective option — all while limiting free users to three image generations a day.

Previously, ChatGPT Plus users had the following limits: Reasoning Models: 100 messages a week with o3. 100 messages a day with o4-mini-high 300 messages a day with o4-mini. Regular Models: 80 messages every 3 hours on GPT-4o “Up to” 40 messages every 3 hours on GPT-4, with OpenAI saying it would “reduce the limit during peak hours to keep GPT-4 and GPT-4o accessible to the widest number of people.” Once you hit these limits, you’re sent down to 4.1-mini. It’s unclear what the usage limits for 4.1 or 4.5 were, and OpenAI does not seem to have published them. With GPT-5, things are tangibly worse, removing the model selector and replacing it with the ability to select either “GPT-5” or “GPT-5 Thinking.” 80 messages every three hours to regular GPT-5. This model can also be asked to “think,” which will, if you take OpenAI’s word for it, select a reasoning model. 200 messages of “GPT-5-thinking” a week.

aug 8, 2025, 5:25 pm • 106 14 • view

By opening up priority processing to all API users, OpenAI is clearly stating they intend to start throttling developers. This is a mob-like technique that screams of desperation. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/

Back then, this was explicitly “available to enterprise customers,” which required you to reach out to OpenAI’s sales team. Yet as of August 7 2025, priority processing is now available for all developers connecting to OpenAI’s models. Now anyone can pay for “priority processing [that] generates tokens faster and at a more consistent speed than the Standard processing service, even during peak demand.” Again, this seems like a good thing, offering anyone the chance to pay for priority processing suggests that there are good reasons for them to want to do so, such as capacity issues. It’s not actually clear what the consequences of not paying for priority processing would be, other than the spectre of “peak demand.” OpenAI’s (month-old) Priority Processing FAQ document says that “priority processing consumption is treated the same as standard API traffic for rate limits.” Call me paranoid, but this feels like the kind of thing a company does when they are experiencing (or anticipating) capacity issues, or intending to start limiting API calls. Another indicator that I’m right is a hasty addition made to OpenAI’s “Scale Tier For API Customers” page”:

“Scale Tier” is OpenAI’s equivalent of Anthropic’s “Priority Service Tier,” requiring an up-front commitment of tokens-per-minute in return for: Predictable latency: Scale Tier is designed to generate tokens faster and at a more consistent speed than the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) service, even during peak demand. Uncapped scale: Any quota purchases with Scale Tier is automatically added to your rate limits, so you can confidently scale further. Higher reliability: Scale Tier traffic offers a 99.9% uptime SLA and prioritized compute. While point 2 isn’t relevant, points 1 and 3 give us some clarity as to what “priority processing” could mean — guaranteed uptime and prioritized compute. It’s very clear that OpenAI plans to artificially (or out of necessity) start providing choppier service to its API customers unless they pay double the price for access. It’s unclear based on the conflict between the info on the Priority Processing Page (which shows pricing for every model) and OpenAI’s API pricing page (which, when you select priority, only shows GPT-5 and GPT-5-mini) what OpenAI intends to offer in the long-term, but it’s possible it intends to limit choice at the priority level. In any case, OpenAI has begun the enshittification process, muddying the value of its paid-for products while quietly jacking up prices on developers integrating their models. Time will tell whether Anthropic follows OpenAI’s lead. Accessing Anthropic’s “priority tier” still requires a conversation with its sales team and a minimum commitment, and Anthropic still allows users to select Claude Opus 4.1, 4, Sonnet 3.7, 3, and Haiku 3.5.

aug 8, 2025, 5:25 pm • 75 6 • view

Anthropic enshittified Claude Code in one of the most egregious swindles in tech history, taking it from relatively unrestrained on May 22 to (as of Aug 28) featuring two weekly rate limits, with stealth rate limits already in place. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/

The Great Claude Code Swindle A few weeks ago I wrote about how I was able to estimate (using Anthropic’s gross profit margins) that Claude Code customers were burning, depending on their usage, anywhere from 200% to 10,000% of their monthly subscription fee a month, and how this would, inevitably, lead to some sort of limits. To quote the end of the piece: Also, do you think that the current version of Claude Code is going to be what you get? Anthropic has proven it’ll rate limit their business customers, what's stopping it from doing the same to you and charging more, just like Cursor? I was right to be concerned. On July 27, Anthropic announced new rate limits on Claude, adding an “overall weekly limit” that resets every 7 days along with a limit specific to Claude Opus 4, justifying it by saying that there were people “running Claude 24/7 in the background.

At no point does Anthropic explain what “your rate limit” means. As a result, Anthropic can provide whatever service it wants at whatever rate it wants, and based on the fact that the ClaudeAI Subreddit now needs its own dedicated weekly “Usage Limits Megathread” to keep complaints in one place, it’s very obvious that things are getting worse. While Anthropic might say “45 messages every 5 hours” or “225 messages every 5 hours,” a “message” is a subjective measurement that it makes no effort to narrow down so that it has no real service commitment to its paid users. While Anthropic estimates only 5% of users will be affected by weekly rate limits, it’s clear that something has shifted already. One user complained of blowing through their Opus 4 usage in 10 minutes (hitting the 5 hour wall, I assume), another hit limits after an hour of struggling with hallucinations, and many others hit their limits alarmingly quickly. One critique of this analysis could be that these are anecdotal reports — but in the last few weeks of staring at this Subreddit, these posts are constant, to the point that it’s hard to dispute that Anthropic is deliberately making its service worse. The Claude Code that Anthropic started selling on May 22 2025 is effectively a different product to the one you see today. The $400 million in annualized revenue — so $33 million a month — that Anthropic has earned from Claude Code has been earned in bad faith by offering a barely-restricted version of a product it very much intended to restrict. And even though the weekly limits are yet to kick in, it’s obvious that others have already been put in place.

aug 8, 2025, 5:25 pm • 73 4 • view

Anthropic already enshittified Cursor and Replit with the introduction of "priority service tiers" that jacked up the prices, especially on prompt caching. This led to a rare double-enshittification of Cursor and Replit's customers. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/

Cursor, AI’s First “Double-Enshittification,” and Replit’s “Effort-Based” Pricing I’ve already explained this before, but the most obvious enshittification was Anthropic’s service tiers: Earlier in the week, I put out a piece about how Anthropic had begun cranking up prices on its enterprise customers, most notably Cursor, a $500 million Annualised Recurring Revenue (meaning month multiplied by 12) startup that is also Anthropic’s largest customer for API access to models like Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4. As a result, Cursor had to make massive changes to the business model that had let it grow so large in the first place, replacing (on June 17 2025, a few weeks after Anthropic’s May 22 launch of its Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models) a relatively limitless $20-a-month offering with a much-more-limited $20-a-month package and a less-limited-but-still-worse-than-the-old-$20-tier $200-a-month subscription, pissing off customers and leading to most of the Cursor Subreddit turning into people complaining or discussing they’d cancel their subscription. Though I recommend you go and read the previous analysis, the long and short of it is that Anthropic increased the costs on its largest customer — a coding startup — about 8 days (on May 30 2025) after launching two models (Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4) specifically dedicated to coding.

The reason I call this a double-enshittification is it involves two of them: Anthropic Enshittifies Its API, adding priority service tiers, forcing Cursor to commit multiple-years worth of access. Cursor Enshittifies Its Product, adding a $200-a-month “Ultra” subscription while changing its pricing from a certain number of requests to usage-based pricing that charges the API cost of a model plus 20%, with a guaranteed amount of compute per month in excess of your monthly subscription. So, for $20 a month you’ll always get more than $20 of compute. This may seem like a good deal, but it is significantly worse than what Cursor used to offer. For Replit, I’m gonna plagiarize myself again: On June 18 2025 — a day after Cursor's price increases — Replit introduced

aug 8, 2025, 5:25 pm • 69 6 • view

Every single time you see a $200-a-month AI subscription, the company in question is planning enshittification. Once they're introduced, companies like Google immediately add rate limits to their $20-a-month plans. It's sickening. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/

I’ll make it really simple for you: these companies are introducing $200+-a-month subscription tiers because that is the only price point at which offering the most “powerful” (read: compute intensive) models becomes remotely feasible. The $20-a-month pricing model does not work for generative AI, and though these $200+-a-month plans aren’t profitable either, they’re — I assume — losing them less money. I hope so, at least. Perplexity Max ($200-a-month) offers access to “top tier advanced AI models like OpenAI o3-pro and Claude Opus 4,” and while Perplexity Pro ($20-a-month) offers some “advanced” models, users don’t get access to Claude Opus 4 or OpenAI’s o3 pro. Though these are anecdotal reports, I have seen a good amount of comments on the Perplexity Subreddit that Perplexity Pro has started to spit out mediocre answers, with one user specifically suggesting that Perplexity — which has given away thousands of free Pro accounts through deals with companies like Uber and Samsung — is enshittifying its service. A sidenote about Grok: The Grok Subreddit is one of the worst places I’ve had the misfortune of reading due to the launch of “Ani,” an AI-powered anime girlfriend within the app. There are so many posts about anime girlfriends. I assume that someone, somewhere, is complaining about the rate limits because xAI is losing $1 billion a month. Whatever vile pervert pays $300 a month for “SuperGrok Heavy” deserves whatever bullshit Elon Musk does to them at this point. I have no sympathy for victims of the wallet inspector.

Even big tech is getting in on the enshittocene, with Google’s $250-a-month (currently discounted to $149.99 a month) “AI Ultra” plan launching on May 20, 2025 (two days before Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 4!) along with new rate limits for its $20-a-month “Pro” subscription, limiting access in a non-specific way. Thankfully, blogger Otobek Djuraev pulled together on June 5, 2025 some of the limitations, working out with his fellow Redditors that Google had quietly added rate limits just as it launched their $250-a-month subscription which, coincidentally, had its “highest” access to Google’s “most capable models,” relegating pathetic $20-a-month Pro users to “higher” access, whatever the hell that means. And I’m not even being flippant with that comment. Google has not published any meaningful explanation of what the limits are on its paid plans, not even in the case of its $250-a-month subscriptions. But, I’d argue, that’s all by design.

aug 8, 2025, 5:25 pm • 118 11 • view

GPT-5 was meant to be OpenAI's iPhone moment. Instead, it felt like the last Valentine's Day before a breakup. This underwhelming launch feels like the end of the GPT era, and the last trick in Clammy Sam Altman's arsenal. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/

The Melancholy of OpenAI I’m struggling to find articles about it, but I swear, for the last few years, people have been acting like GPT-5 would be some sort of industry-changing event, tantamount to the original iPhone. Instead, GPT-5 feels like the last Valentine’s Day before a breakup. I’m serious, there’s a genuine sadness to everything going on in AI — a kind of pained, feigned excitement for a new model that doesn’t really sound like a new model, and even Simon Willison, a well-intentioned, well-versed LLM-knower, can only muster the limp praise of “verdict: it’s just good at stuff.” How utterly melancholy! How deeply sad! We sit at what amounts to the end of, at the very least, the end of the GPT era, of the period of S development in generative AI when there were things to look forward to and when there was hope that OpenAI would create something impressive. This was, in many ways, the last real reason for anyone to take OpenAI seriously. After this, what exactly is there to wait for from this company? Its next model that becomes the top of some sort of obscure LLM benchmark for a week or two before Google or Anthropic does nearly the exact same thing? What, exactly, are we building all these data centers for? Why are we doing this? To what end? What necessitates the environmentally and societally destructive sprawl of generative AI?

Not that I ever believed that OpenAI would actually impress me, but is this really the best that Sam Altman has to offer? Is this why OpenAI has incinerated ten billion dollars since June? Is this what necessitated raising another $8.3 billion, with plans to raise another $22.5 billion to follow? Why are we acting as if there is not, on some level, a cashout happening at OpenAI right now? It’s trying to set up an employee share sale at a valuation that would make it worth more than Netflix at $500 billion. What, exactly, is it about OpenAI that makes this company worth $300 billion (Salesforce, as of writing this sentence, has a market capitalization of $243 billion), let alone $500 billion? What about GPT-5 justifies this company’s existence? Are these tools truly innovative? Are they truly useful? How is this company making a billion dollars a month, and what is it about its product that makes 20 million people pay $20-a-month for it? Are any of the 5 million business customers the ones that OpenAI has offered a month of ChatGPT Team to for a dollar? What’s it’s churn? How much money does OpenAI actually make? Investors plowing more money into OpenAI are not simply wasting their money, but enabling the reckless and erratic sprawl of Sam Altman. Nothing about this company is innovative, there is nothing impressive happening, and it is shameful that this has been allowed to go this far. This company is set to burn at least $8 billion this year according to The Information — but I think it’s going to burn far more, based on the fact it raised $10 billion in June, then $8.3 billion in August, and plans to raise another $20 billion or more by the end of the year.

What’s next? Will Anthropic end up doing exactly the same thing, then also raise a lot of money, then also have an employee share sale, then also release the newest, most powerful model of all time? I can’t wait! Really though, does anybody feel excited about what’s happening? Is anybody having fun? Is anybody truly hopeful for the future based on the launch of GPT-5? Or are they just going through the motions until somebody finally cracks and admits that things aren’t going to work out?

aug 8, 2025, 5:25 pm • 644 110 • view

Awaiting the rug pull.

aug 9, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view

The framing of this makes it feel like crypto all over again. And it will probably be the same thing. You'll have AI bros pumping and dumping their next big thing over and over for years.

aug 9, 2025, 1:09 pm • 3 0 • view

At first I was enthralled with AI. Then after a few weeks and some horrible tech support for working on software problems the spell was broken. This thing is giving me more wrong information than correct information. Consistently wrong is not a good look for any platform.

aug 9, 2025, 3:37 pm • 2 0 • view

Clammy Sam 😂

aug 8, 2025, 7:54 pm • 10 0 • view

Putting the arse in arsenal

aug 9, 2025, 6:29 am • 1 0 • view

if gpt5 is openai's iphone moment, openai is palmOS

aug 10, 2025, 6:42 am • 0 0 • view

I'm old enough to remember the Tech bubble and it feels the same . The same jackasses that invested in Pets.com are crypto enthusiasts now.

aug 9, 2025, 1:13 pm • 2 0 • view

Hype is how they make money. The real scam.

aug 9, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view

The model itself doesn't seem to be very optimistic about its future:

aug 8, 2025, 5:58 pm • 15 0 • view

I was hoping it was going to include your blog as part of its answer lol

aug 8, 2025, 6:03 pm • 8 0 • view

Can you get it to explain how they will become profitable? I think Altman at some point said that was the plan, ask the very expensive LLM how to make money with it.

aug 8, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view

They were creaming their shorts about it on morning squawk. Idk what to say anymore, all the money wants this to win, and there’s like nothing there. Ed I’m feeling crazy! Untethered! Unmoored!

aug 9, 2025, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view

Looked like they filmed the announcement in the lobby of a La Quinta Inn

aug 8, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view

📌

aug 8, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view

I did the "show me a diagram of US presidents", and... bsky.app/profile/homm...

aug 9, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view

I think we’re about to see an AI crash that’s at least as big as the early 2000s internet hype crash.

aug 9, 2025, 1:18 pm • 5 0 • view

It’s their Apple Maps moment.

aug 9, 2025, 6:43 am • 2 0 • view

Clam Altman

aug 8, 2025, 7:54 pm • 4 0 • view

clammy sammy!

aug 8, 2025, 7:58 pm • 9 0 • view

It reminds me of the hype around the mysterious “Ginger” project that was going to change the way cities are built. It was so revolutionary that they couldn’t tell us what it was until it was ready. I’ll admit that I was captured by the hype. The only thing it revolutionized was walking tours.

aug 9, 2025, 1:45 pm • 2 0 • view

AI = Webscraper + Hype

aug 9, 2025, 1:06 pm • 3 0 • view

Fingers crossed.

aug 8, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view

It's so bad the conspiracy-side in me thinks it's gotta be intentional by Sam

aug 8, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view

Like a pump and dump?

aug 8, 2025, 7:53 pm • 4 0 • view

1/2 Our filthy rich overlords are desperate to make "AI" succeed because they need to have a proven ability to make sex crime deepfakes that cannot be proven to be fake. Once this ability is proven, all the kompromat on them can come out & they can say it proves nothing because anyone could make …

aug 9, 2025, 2:29 pm • 1 0 • view

2/2 … could make the same kind of videos about them regardless of whether they had done anything. Furthermore, 86 47 and lock him up for life!

aug 9, 2025, 2:31 pm • 1 0 • view

good. they should be desperate with how the public opinion of AI isn't turning around and neither are their finances.

aug 9, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view

I'm sure you'll have the receipts as they become available, but I'm most interested in hearing about it black boxing "the best model for the job". I figured they'd go this way, but do we have anything proving that this is happening, for sure?

aug 10, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view

I didn’t have making AI worse on any possible timeline bingo.

aug 8, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view

Very interesting

aug 9, 2025, 6:54 am • 0 0 • view

They're shitting in my shit!

aug 9, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view

In order to be enshittified you need to have NOT been shit at some prior point 🤣 RIP Bozo and stay RIP

aug 8, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view

It was always shit.

aug 10, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view

I'm glad they published GPS-OSS. I can enshit the AI myself.

aug 9, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view

It's like moving straight to Linux when Microsoft published Windows 95.

aug 9, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view

This is how mortifyingly dumb this site is.....ahhhha

aug 14, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view

Curse your inevitable betrayal etc etc

aug 8, 2025, 7:01 pm • 2 0 • view

aug 8, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view

Why is anyone surprised? Why did you think these companies were pouring that amount of money into creating and pushing AI? It was for profit. It was never to help anyone, just theft for profit.

aug 8, 2025, 11:30 pm • 1 0 • view

Yup!!

aug 9, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view

aug 8, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view

Is this it? Is this the start of people turning their backs on these plagiarism machines? I sure hope so. I want this bubble to pop already.

aug 8, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view

Ed, what do you think of the (enraging) possibility of a government bailout?

aug 8, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 0 • view

Does it make me a bad person if I want them to crash and burn?

aug 8, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view

Yay! I think anyone who is using this stuff should have a miserable time and have to pay way too much for it

aug 8, 2025, 5:31 pm • 63 1 • view

If only anyone had warned them this would happen when they decided to fire all their human employees to use AI for free instead 😏

aug 9, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view

Honestly as a philosophy professor, this is my hope. That it gets so bad and shitty that maybe students will stop using it

aug 8, 2025, 6:21 pm • 5 0 • view

They should enshittify faster. This is the only case where it's a justified, positive move for an industry

aug 8, 2025, 5:32 pm • 39 0 • view

absolutely. hoping it will save us the effort of throwing it all into a volcano

aug 8, 2025, 6:54 pm • 15 0 • view

Yes! Is it naive of me to hope that the constant updating and corporate greed will actually kill the beast?

aug 8, 2025, 7:12 pm • 5 0 • view

idk but I sometimes read Ed as a pick-me-up

aug 8, 2025, 8:12 pm • 3 0 • view

I mean, I think it's the running out of money that will kill it.

aug 9, 2025, 1:58 am • 5 1 • view

I hope so, just wish it would happen sooner unfortunately it's less a "running out of money" than a "wealth transfer in hundreds of billions to the worst people" while millions of jobs and litres of water evaporate

aug 9, 2025, 2:06 am • 5 1 • view

Can you enshittify something that was already complete shit and a total grift to begin with?

aug 9, 2025, 12:37 am • 2 0 • view

Earlier this month Open AI reduced the size of the files you can upload to be analyzed. Just...stopped allowing larger sizes. Absolutely zero notice.

aug 9, 2025, 12:36 am • 1 0 • view

how do you enshitify shit?

aug 9, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view

Good.

aug 11, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view

Can you enshittify something that never worked?

aug 8, 2025, 5:52 pm • 43 0 • view

enshittification is the main thing on offer here and what you really pay for. products are an afterthought in modern day capitalism

aug 8, 2025, 9:16 pm • 6 0 • view

lol who could’ve seen this coming? 🙃

aug 8, 2025, 11:21 pm • 3 0 • view

Just one more version bro, it will fix it, I swear. We just need one more version and it will sort itself out. That’s all it needs bro, just one more version and it will be perfect. It’s going to solve climate change bro, just you watch. You’re going to look so silly bro. Just one more version

aug 8, 2025, 5:48 pm • 32 2 • view

They forgot the cardinal rule of enshittification. People have to have adopted your product to the point where they rely on it and would feel pain if it were taken away before you can begin the enshittification process. Anyone who feels that way about chatGPT probably can't tie their own shoes.

aug 9, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view

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aug 14, 2025, 8:21 am • 0 0 • view

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aug 13, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view

Apparently you can get your AI girlfriend back by telling it to pretend to behave like the 4o model.

aug 8, 2025, 6:13 pm • 9 0 • view

📌

aug 8, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view

I was actually just about to go search down if the release of GPT5 meant they cut access to previous models because it seemed too stupid to be true, but hey ho wow holy shit sam altman is going to lose everything and he deserves it. That's ridiculous.

aug 8, 2025, 8:24 pm • 2 0 • view

I didn't realise you could enshittify shit even more

aug 8, 2025, 8:16 pm • 8 0 • view

Everyone saying this thinks they're the first person to say it and that it's a thought that makes sense vs a reference to a term with meaning

aug 9, 2025, 12:38 am • 2 0 • view

Oh no did I fail the assignment

aug 9, 2025, 9:29 am • 1 0 • view

You win on having a sense of humor! But also I think your joke works even with the specific meaning. The original term enshittification assumed an initial high quality product. So if the product has always been bad, making aspects of it worse is not true enshittification.

aug 9, 2025, 12:09 pm • 1 0 • view

That part. They're enshittifying literal shit.

aug 8, 2025, 8:53 pm • 6 0 • view

This is serious enough for the verb "to enshitify" and all its parts of speech and variants to be required to be added to the Oxford English dictionary and not just wallow in the bowels of the Urban Dictionary. share.google/AAcqaXtLFXAw...

aug 9, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view

I’ve come back to the US just in time to see Ed Zitron do more actual due diligence than most people who invest in AI.

aug 8, 2025, 7:45 pm • 8 0 • view

No "people" invest in AI

aug 9, 2025, 4:22 pm • 2 0 • view

Oh, for sure. Legally speaking, private equity companies are “people” lol.

aug 9, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view

Many researchers steeped in these issues expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in “maybe possibly some remote chance,” but as in “that is the obvious thing that would happen.”

aug 8, 2025, 8:47 pm • 5 0 • view

Do you have an article on how this would happen,please? I can see how it could cause absolute mayhem if it corrupts some sensitive systems, but everyone dying seems like a stretch.

aug 9, 2025, 10:00 am • 1 0 • view

AI 2027 share.google/vVD23nUgkJXG... Bbc this week about this paper youtu.be/1UufaK3pQMg?... Some of the "godfather of ai" they were referring to share.google/15caF5zikzba... share.google/AEGyKPgLRtAk...

aug 9, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view

Not a certainty but certainly a possibility. Experts are ramping up the issues because of the accelerated development and the seemingly lack of restraint. Even the Vatican has written a paper, "Antigua et Nova",urging restraint. DDF_20250128T_Antiqua-et-Nova.pdf share.google/5FaIbM0tqb6W...

aug 9, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view

Sorry, this just reads like AI fanfiction, with most of the developments coming out of nowhere. AI is suddenly 70x faster because of... reasons? And bioweapons? How exactly is AI breeding viruses etc? I did like the Expanse ending.

aug 9, 2025, 4:14 pm • 3 0 • view

No need to apologize. I only included it because it is recent and BBC did a story on it. There is a 60 minutes with Hinton that is more grounded. youtu.be/qyH3NxFz3Aw?... I am not a doom sayer. I just happen to be taking an AI literacy class so I am up on some current events and there's a lot.

aug 9, 2025, 8:31 pm • 2 0 • view

It is in fact just AI sci-fi

aug 11, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view

Weird how often sci-fi predicts the future though

aug 11, 2025, 3:03 pm • 1 0 • view

It usually doesn't, actually! Also the point is it's entirely fictional. It's a wordier twist on "AI will 👋somehow👋 become self-improving and then things really take off".

aug 11, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view

I love my atomic ashtray!

aug 11, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view

Have you had a look at the chatgpt reddit lately? Lots of extremely sad posts from the fans about the rollout, with titles like "I lost my only friend." It's fucking bleak.

aug 8, 2025, 5:38 pm • 33 0 • view

they’re talking about 4o like it’s a lost puppy lmao

aug 8, 2025, 5:43 pm • 16 0 • view

I can't believe Sam Altman put chatgpt 4 down like Old Yeller

aug 8, 2025, 5:58 pm • 24 0 • view

we need to do him, tho

aug 8, 2025, 6:56 pm • 2 0 • view

So if you built anything on gpt it's going to be even less predictable. Hey IT industry invest effort into this thing that you'll have to explain why sometimes it doesn't work for no reason. Eat your whole budget on it.

aug 8, 2025, 8:40 pm • 1 0 • view

They were hoping to pull off the Uber trajectory, but it turns out it’s as if the cost to profitably drive you across town were $300 rather than $70. GPT-5 seems like an admission that no cost-saving technical breakthrough will be arriving in time.

aug 9, 2025, 3:00 am • 1 0 • view

I imagine this ends with OpenAI and Anthropic withering away, leaving the companies who have massive sums of their own money to burn (ie Musk and Zuck).

aug 9, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view

Oh and Google obviously

aug 9, 2025, 3:08 am • 0 0 • view

Hey, ChatGPT no longer tells me I’m the founder of Google (something it’d done since day 1 for some reason) and it only took 10 minutes to get it to admit that Trump has violated all 10 commandments - so there is some improvement.

aug 8, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view

How do you enshittify a fucking turd?

aug 8, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view

normally enshitiffication takes 8-15 years to really start kicking in but I guess this is just another thing ai is better at than everyone else huh

aug 9, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view

Well this was a a change i think actually made some sense unlike most big corpo stuff. But having tested it out now a little it just doesn't work properly. Also it is an issue they themselves created by releasing so many models and naming them so weirdly.

aug 9, 2025, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view

Apropos #enshittification -- check out the revised @pncbank.bsky.social website.

aug 10, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view

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