{"id":1954,"date":"2024-01-14T14:54:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T19:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2024-01-14T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T02:52:12","slug":"engines-of-enshittification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2024\/01\/14\/engines-of-enshittification\/","title":{"rendered":"Engines of enshittification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2024\/01\/lazy-use-of-ai-leads-to-amazon-products-called-i-cannot-fulfill-that-request\/\">Ars Technica<\/a>, I&#8217;ve learned that shady Amazon sellers have been using chatbots to automatically write item descriptions. The result is hot offers on items like &#8220;I cannot fulfill that request&#8221; and &#8220;I apologize but I cannot complete this task.&#8221; This is a natural progression from Amazon product listings which were simply misdescribed by humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the distant past, 15 or 20 years ago, Amazon used to be the place where you could reliably order name brand things. If you wanted a DVD at a mediocre price, you could order from Amazon and get a legit copy of it. If you wanted a ridiculously low price, you could order from a shady website and get a knockoff of dubious provenance and quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Amazon has expanded its offerings to include <em>all the shit<\/em>, that has inevitably swept in all the <em>shit<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Ars Technica, I&#8217;ve learned that shady Amazon sellers have been using chatbots to automatically write item descriptions. The result is hot offers on items like &#8220;I cannot fulfill that request&#8221; and &#8220;I apologize but I cannot complete this task.&#8221; This is a natural progression from Amazon product listings which were simply misdescribed by humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[73,47,31],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump","tag-ai","tag-nostalgia","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-vw","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}