One of the basic tenets of market capitalism is the gospel of innovation - that if a product deteriorates in quality, the market will respond to meet consumer demand. The internet has completely put paid to this notion and AI accelerates the ongoing exposure
As someone who works in "gifted" education I am continually shocked by the compete acceptance of this gospel. Other educators are entirely unwilling to question any aspect of innovation culture. And they *love* AI. 😬
These types never foresee that corporations can simply use their money, political influence, market dominance and regulatory capture to force inferior quality on consumers in the long term. Practically every consumer product has become more cheaply made to increase margins in the past few decades.
Capitalism is the biggest scam there is.
For what it’s worth I’ve switched from chrome to firefox and use duckduckgo as my default search and the transition was pretty seamless. You don’t *have* to use google products.
Consumers do not appear to demand quality information, not enough anyway.
For reasons no doubt too cunning for a simpleton like me to comprehend, Google seem determined to remove any last vestige of usefulness from their search product.
My brain may not be working properly, but I’m straining to make sense of that last sentence. “Completely put paid to this notion” is not a phrase I’m familiar with. I don’t intend to sound critical; I’d just like to understand.
Sadly, the gospel of innovation has been replaced by the gospel of enshittification.