This entire essay by Benj Edwards over at Vintage Computing and Gaming is fantastic, but that section in particular stood out to me because I’ve been making the exact same analogy. #GenerativeAI companies are treating all human creative output on the Internet like it’s merely raw material to extract out of the environment and repurpose for their paying* customers. Who cares if the overall quality of software keeps decreasing and frequent #enshittification is the new normal? Gotta keep the...| Jared White
How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe. For a while—in the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s—it felt like nerds were [...]| Vintage Computing and Gaming