"Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?"

No.

"recently vacationed in Italy...ran my itinerary past GPT5 for sightseeing suggestions & restaurant recommendations"

Embarrassing.

"When I got home, I asked the model how it chose that restaurant... The answer was complex and impressive"

No, the answer was a hallucination

An entire article based on hallucination by the editor-at-large of Wired by Steven Levy

Reporting on LLMs with a fundamental misunderstanding of how they work