> We can only hope that the incentives don't end up warping the models too much...
Oh my sweet summer child. How can you be so optimistic after seeing Google's decline? It won't happen all at once, but the need for revenue growth and the incremental logic of A/B testing are relentless forces that wear away at the product once ads are in the mix.
It's been 27 years since Google Search launched, and I still find it very useful despite some perverse incentives. A pretty good run I would say. If OpenAI declines that slowly, and is then displaced by something better, I'd say it was a good outcome.
I hope it takes as long for AI enshittification, but the tech "cycle" has become shorter and the pressure to make revenue is much more intense than it was for Google.
Oh my sweet summer child. How can you be so optimistic after seeing Google's decline? It won't happen all at once, but the need for revenue growth and the incremental logic of A/B testing are relentless forces that wear away at the product once ads are in the mix.