[simonw]

Enshittification means something entirely different: it's the inevitable decline of online services as they face the pressure to continually monetize.

Plenty of examples of enshittification have nothing to do with generative AI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification mentions Cory's alternative definition of "platform decline".

[polshaw]

Platform *decay seems inadequate though because it fails to make the distinction that the platform is declining specifically in quality and likely NOT in use.

[rimunroe]

Also I wouldn't call a particular blog post's content "enshittification" anyway. "Enshittification" is a process, not a particular type of content. We have plenty of terms for the latter, like "SEO spam" or "rage bait". I don't see anything wrong with someone trying to come up with a shorthand term for "unwanted AI-generated content"

[zug_zug]

They're only different if an individual is manually posting slop.

If a company is automatically posting slop, then the root of the problem is enshittification, and AI is just means.

[Lalabadie]

If we forewent all words that are symptoms but not root problems, we would have very few words.