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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Look at the date the file was created:
Date 31 May 2016
Going back to the website then finds zero mention of AI nor was the technology really capable of creating anything like that video (or even parts of it)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160401142946/http://simpleshow.com/us-en/