Not the entirety of it, but significant portions of the text are AI-generated (along with all images). More to the point, it doesn't really say anything interesting. It's a tech demo for AI text and images more than anything else.
The whole point is that you don't need to come up with tortured hotdog metaphors to explain "enshittification". It's not some exotic, made-up concept that's hard to grasp for the average person. You can literally take almost any online product or service and make your point with that. "You used to have more choice here, and it didn't have subscription fees and ads."
Yeah, it really is surprising how explicit most cases of it are. UberEats won out in one of the cities I lived in because initially it offered free delivery, discouraged tipping, and had next to no fees. I just gave you some food at home for exactly the same price as getting it yourself. Then of course once it ran the others out, they jacked up prices then squeezed the restaurants in a progression so clear and explicit that I would agree enshittification is such a good and universal strategy that it needs no metaphor.
I think in general, people enjoy building metaphors because it triggers the "lecturing about topic I know about" dopamine kick that some types have, and the process of systematizing information and then synthesizing some generality about it (apperception) feels rewarding. Unfortunately, I keep seeing metaphors that are more confusing than their concepts. A lot of agile terms (pigs and chickens for example) tend to take simple idea and obfuscate via metaphor.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 34.3 ms ] threadThe whole point is that you don't need to come up with tortured hotdog metaphors to explain "enshittification". It's not some exotic, made-up concept that's hard to grasp for the average person. You can literally take almost any online product or service and make your point with that. "You used to have more choice here, and it didn't have subscription fees and ads."
I think in general, people enjoy building metaphors because it triggers the "lecturing about topic I know about" dopamine kick that some types have, and the process of systematizing information and then synthesizing some generality about it (apperception) feels rewarding. Unfortunately, I keep seeing metaphors that are more confusing than their concepts. A lot of agile terms (pigs and chickens for example) tend to take simple idea and obfuscate via metaphor.