You thought clickbait was bad. Now you get AI insanity. A complaint from the Verge: Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
Because Google knows better, even when they don't.
In early December, I brought you the news that Google has begun replacing Verge headlines, and those of our competitors, with AI clickbait nonsense in its content feed. Google appeared to be backing away from the experiment, but now tells The Verge that its AI headlines in Google Discover are a feature, one that “performs well for user satisfaction.” I once again see lots of misleading claims every time I check my phone.
It hasn't gotten better since December.
"Enshittification" is taken from the title to a by Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. Dictionary.com describes it as follows:
the gradual degradation of an online platform or service's functionality, as part of a cycle in which the platform or service first offers benefits to users to attract them, then pursues more and more profits at the expense of users.
Hat tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit.
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