Also "Access to information" is a funny one, most of the useful information is crowd sourced via direct sources like wikipedia and now indirect sources like LLM's regurgitating all human knowledge.
Everything a company is selling you is getting worse, one can only assume the same will happen with AI, as soon as possible otherwise the AI companies won't be able to payback on the investment.
replyNobody cares that their TV is cheaper when it now smashes ads in your face while using your bandwidth to serve botnets and sends a heartbeat even when offline. Everything that actually matters, like good healthy food or youth sports, is increasingly expensive or shrinkflated.
replyIt's because of rent. Rent keeps going up and this gets passed on to all people who buy things, live, or work, but it rarely flows the other way - rentiers spend all their rent acquiring more rent, not on productive things. And so you have this constant leeching away from the real economy.
replyThe rent seeking in this era really is off the charts
reply> using ai to help create ads for your business
replywhenever i see this i drives me away, i'd rather buy from a business that drew stick figure ads by hand. funniest thing i saw was an ai food ad and someone asked if the ai makes the food as well. the staff were actually miffed lol.
Saw AI food pics on most stands at a festival recently. Real uncanny valley horrors that tell you nothing about what you are actually going to get. Unfortunately, as with most enshittification, normies don't seem to care.
reply> i'd rather buy from a business that drew stick figure ads by hand
replyPeople have complained my stick figures look "unprofessional".