Love that the slop merchants are using my book to (further) enshittify Amazon, and that Amazon's terrible QA standards is letting 'em do it.
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@pluralistic @aj “Enshittification: a How-To Guide for Founders”
@pluralistic "Enshittification: the execution" has some of those fancy 90s RPG feels with more, well, shit.
@pluralistic Irony is very ironic sometimes.
@pluralistic I imagine that the workbook is a step by step checklist with a business plan for unscrupulous executives to establish trust with customers and suppliers, create a monopoly, then betray that trust for personal gain.
At least they would be honest with themselves about what they're doing and what it is called
@pluralistic personally I'm more worried and annoyed about LLMs spouting out copyrighted material from my books than some small-time scammer plagiarizing them.
@pluralistic You should publish an Enshittification Workbook.
@pluralistic Gaelic speakers are way ahead of you there - we've been enjoying our slop since 2016!
@pluralistic I'll withhold judgement until I find out who they're executing
@pluralistic LOL “Ronan Keir Thornwell”.
ChatGPT, please generate an aristocratic-anglo sounding name.
@pluralistic Enshittery is the sincerest form of flattery or something like that
@pluralistic it’s fun that they won’t sell a single hardcopy but they still killed a bunch of rainforest to generate it
@pluralistic but you earn 15 points though! who doesn't want points?
@pluralistic wow. Amazon is such a perfect example of enshittification. I remember when Amazon first started, I was so excited about an online bookstore. Now I hate it.
Living off the fat of the land
@pluralistic oh, the irony.
Our reality is more satirical than anything that could ever be written.
@pluralistic I think it would be great if the Enshittification workbook walked you through using an LLM to generate an Enshittification Workbook and publish it on Amazon.
@pluralistic Eventually the slop “summaries” of popular titles will get fed into the slop summarizers and you'll be able to buy summaries of slop.
"The Key Understanding You Get from the Key Understanding You Get From Enshittification Workbook Workbook.”
@angusm @pluralistic the slop summarizers will eventually boil everything down to a single word.
This is how we get to 42
Toilet training the internet.
@pluralistic not to teach my grandmother to suck eggs privacy-wise... But shouldn't you hide your location in the screenshot (sorry, just concerned)
@kuraisle The fact that I live in Burbank is a matter of public record (it's on my jacket flap!) and 91505 is the ZIP for 80% of town, but it's a good point!
@pluralistic ah in the UK your postcode is a lot more specific! I suppose ZIP codes have to cover a much larger area
@kuraisle @pluralistic we have an extra part of the code for a smaller area, but you don't often see it. An example would be "27604-2017"
“Hey, Alexa, an illustrated example of Enshittification, please.”
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry, really.
the sample chapter is so... cringe. Like you expect it to be bad, but ... its bad.
Observation #1 - $20 dollars for THAT? Who's paying $20 for that?
Observation #2 - I could make $20 for selling crap like THAT?
I'm in the wrong business. "Either I want less corruption, or more opportunities to be a part of it."
Stupid moral compass. <grumble>
I’m just adding this to my “irony is the opposite of wrinkly, isn’t it?” file. 🤣😭
Sadly Ronan Keir Thronwell has no other titles to their name, otherwise I'd suggest dubbing RKT the patron saints of slop mongering.
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