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GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think saying AI is being enshittified is too far from the orignal essay

This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.

The AI companies were definitely subsidizing usage of the tech in the hopes of getting people locked in. Don't think people are all that locked in. Probably some people are, suppliers like NVIDIA seem pretty locked in. But I don't think there's all that much to direct to shareholders relative to what they put into it to try to get lock in.

So it's kinda failed enshittification? Premature enshittification... preshittification?

[โ€“] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 48 minutes ago

You bastard.. it's perfect