Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT
kehet@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
This is not enshittification, this is just a corporation trying to protect itself against anything that could cause negative publicity, like all corporations do. I can even see emojis and positive tone to be wanted features for some. The real problem here is lack of transparency.
I’m still waiting for ChatGPT etc. to start injecting (more or less hidden) ads to chat and product placement to generated images. That is just unavoidable when bean counters realize that servers and training actually costs money.
esaru@beehaw.org 1 week ago
It is enshittification in a way, from my point of view: OpenAI aims to let users feel better, catering the user’s ego, on the costs of reducing the usefulness of the service, rather than getting the message across directly.
stray@pawb.social 1 week ago
Making users feel better is one of the usefulnesses of this technology. Factuality and scientific rigor are not something text generators are capable of due to the nature of the technology itself.
I would instead argue that being overly agreeable and not challenging the user may conflict with making the user feel better long-term.