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12 lines
2.2 KiB
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{
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"HubID": "5728",
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"Date": "01/24/2026",
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"HubTags": ["Future Map", "External Platform Posts"],
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"Contacts": ["contact1", "contact2"],
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"Companies": "",
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"File": "",
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"Image": "",
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"Summary": "Enshittification is a term coined in 2023 to describe the predictable trajectory of consumer platforms: they begin genuinely useful, scale rapidly, then—under mounting revenue pressure—optimize for extraction rather than user value, resulting in degraded experiences that primarily serve advertisers, partners, or the platform itself, with Google Search as the clearest example. The same dynamic is likely to hit frontier AI models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Grok, and to do so faster than it did with traditional platforms, as monetization pressure is arriving early and aggressively; the risk is AI systems that increasingly funnel users toward information, products, and services that maximize platform revenue rather than what is actually best for the user. A credible counterweight is already forming in the rise of open-source AI models that individuals and companies can run themselves or access via neutral hosts, the rapid expansion of independent directories and structured knowledge bases these models connect to, the emergence of domain-specific models that outperform general systems in narrow contexts, and a broader shift toward consumer- and company-sovereign AI stacks where users choose what they pay for and what they connect to. While this comes with real costs in compute, hosting, and curation, the trade-off is choice and control, with consumers and companies deciding what they purchase access to rather than being silently monetized. The likely shake-out is uneven: Google Gemini may persist despite weaknesses due to distribution and being “free enough,” Anthropic appears positioned to find durable footing as a B2B provider, OpenAI remains the open question as a consumer AI navigating the risk of enshittification, possibly via high-trust domains like health, and Grok’s future is unclear, potentially tied to X, Tesla, and SpaceX. Cory Doctorow’s original framing remains essential context: https://craphound.com/category/enshittification/",
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"Notes": ""
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}
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