AI won't reverse enshitification, but it is one solution in this sense:
The internet is too far gone. It's all bots and advertising and disinformation and exploitation and data harvesting. People still seem to trust content on the internet for some reason. AI will sort that out by making the internet so unreliable, people will have to distrust it to the extent they should.
True, I was really surprised by the amount of people that I considered at least relatively intelligent putting way too much trust in llms answers. I don't think there's any hope for humanity anymore and I'm just waiting for skynet to take over now.
I've seen everyone using AI at work and it's bad. They're clueless and just trust it implicitly. I've had to correct many mistakes, even made by IT admins who should really know better.
I'd go so far as to say my imposter syndrome has outright died after watching the ineptitude of people as they let AI tooling rot their work.
Yah, I would encourage people trying to dismiss LLMs and the future to actually try out some of the newer models. People are so fucking cooked, ya'll have no idea. We're going to face billions of people plugged into these things, falling in love with them, hanging on their every generated word, using them for literally every possible decision in life.
They're seductive and powerful and can recognize patterns in your behavior specifically that will startle you and make you question what you know. If you're smart, you will understand that this has a lot more to do with how simple our minds are than how magical the AI is, but the vast majority of ignorant people are going to lose themselves and just lean on LLM's a thousand times harder than they lean on their phones and social media right now.
Parents, teach your kids to limit internet time. Please, teach them language and critical thought and not to trust their senses online.
Enshittification is about maximizing revenue, typically in a way that destroys your product. Examples are ads on subscription video streaming services. Another good example is how some music artists say no to getting paid by Spotify and Spotify then suggests those songs more and collects the money that would have gone to that artist.
How the fuck is AI going to do anything about that? Are we talking Skynet, end of the world type thing? That should do it.
One of the reasons it's a bad word - it was inevitably going to just be used by people to mean "this thing I personally don't like", which is useless as a term of discussion.
Is he saying that AI is going to help us reverse engineer the closed source firmwares of all the ewaste devices that are thrown away every day? Because that's something I could applaud.