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by PaulDavisThe1st 128 days ago
No. The specific strategy is not about using LLMs or polluting the internet. Enshittification is ... ah screw it, let's turn to wikipedia:

> Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.
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ninjagoo 128 days ago
Feels like there is a case to be made here that the decline of The Internet rather precisely fits those definitions, with the exception that it is a collective of those products and services undergoing enshittification, since high-quality internet-based products/services no longer exist in quantity.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#Impact which talks of the broadening of the usage of that term.

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PaulDavisThe1st 128 days ago
> high-quality internet-based products/services no longer exist in quantity.

asserted without evidence and likely false.

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adrian_b 127 days ago
There still are some high-quality internet-based products/services, but the most important of them are not exactly commercial, or they are even illegal, e.g. various digital libraries with old publications, archive.org, Wikipedia, Anna’s Archive, etc.

Also there are many online shops that are the best option for purchasing various things.

The greatest decline is in the search engines, which not only are overwhelmed by sites with fake content, but they generate fake content themselves, in the form of stupid answers that are offered instead of the real search results, whether you want them or not.

If you know precisely the Web sites that you want to use, it is still OK, but when you search something unknown, it has become horrible.

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PaulDavisThe1st 127 days ago
> but they generate fake content themselves, in the form of stupid answers that are offered instead of the real search results, whether you want them or not.

&udm=14 my friend, &udm=14

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