🤔 Instead of creating new terms/words for AI and LLMs that have run amuck, I think “AI bullshit” and “LLM bullshit” both roll off the tongue rather well. You may optionally shorten bullshit to “BS” or even the 💩 emoji if you prefer. I encourage you to call people out on their bullshits when they are abusing this autocompletion technology.
@webology To be honest, I can’t see this being helpful. I can’t really take “enshittification” seriously, and it comes off as annoying and polemical to me.
I feel like taking rhetoric to the extreme like this is likely to enforce all-or-nothing thinking about AI, whereas coming up with descriptive terms for specific failure modes will improve awareness about them.
@pganssle I don't think new terms are helpful when the general population has zero clue what we are talking about.
Of the many tech waves/booms we have seen LLMs have hit the general population in a way that people whose main computers are their phones ask me questions about it every week at happy hour and other random settings like getting coffee.
@pganssle I see "enshittification" everywhere.
I remember when I could search for something on Google and find something instead of sifting through a page of ads and crappy content farms which are also full of ads. So I switched to Kagi instead.
I remember when Spotify played music instead of forcing me to a see a podcast bar (filled with ads) with a new upgrade plan over my already premium subscription.
Even Amazon's Fire TV and other platforms change the UI to fit more ads in.
@webology Yeah but both “bullshit” and “enshittification” are not specific or descriptive. If “enshittification” were called something else like “extractive entropy” or “profit-driven degradation”, it would be easier to understand and remember the term.
“LLM bullshit” is even worse, because it could refer to a lot of things, some of which are basically just anti-big tech rhetoric, and some of which are very legitimate. A taxonomy like “slop” and “hallucination” for the specific failure modes provide actionable targets that you can notice and work against, and they are evocative of what is actually going on.
@pganssle Side note: If you are at PyCon US and see me, please wave and say hi. I'm five years removed from attending one, so I apologize if we met at one of the last ones I attended.
@pganssle Sure, but the average non-tech person is not going to understand entropy and profit-driven degradation doesn't roll off the tongue.
I like enshittification because it's easier to understand when used with the big tecth context.
That's a bit harder when you use a term for feeding pigs to mean the opposite of what the word means. It feels like we are misappropriating a term that's centuries old.
I think AI Spam will be my compromise because it is what it is.