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I still can't understand how spez saw what Twitter was doing and thought it looked like a good idea
It's the new rise of CEOs and millionaires seeking to milk the internet to the last fractional dime. Leave morals and critical thinking at the door. Every major company is doing this now, shutting out everything even remotely capable of being scraped into a LLM and paywalling what used to be free to satisfy post-covid shareholders. Accessibility be damned, line must go up.
Beyond that we have Google crippling the Android and Chromium open source code, Youtube blocking user accounts using adblock, Twitch banning sponsor spots who sidestep their pockets, and of course all of them are doubling down on AI with massive amounts of corporate sponsored IP theft and data laundering on an incompressible scale, suffocating any human content (see the Amazon book crisis).
I might know it as something else, but what is the Amazon book crisis?
Probably referring to Amazon being absolutely inundated with junk books written by ai. It's flooded with them. An avalanche of garbage. Like good luck ever writing something and it organically gaining any sort of following without a sponsor to spread awareness or to boost sales to get you to a spot on the list with some visibility.
Yup. The top spots are absolutely flooded with AI garbage and it is nigh impossible to have any meaningful visibility. In a related issue, there are writers getting scammed by 'artists' submitting AI artwork for their commissioned covers which subsequently fucks the copyrights with severe cost to reprint all of the books. Shit is fucked for anyone in any creative field right now.