Go on any social media website and you’ll be used as means to an end in many ways: ads will be shown to you for ad revenue, you will be tracked so your data can be sold, the platforms will expose you to content that drives addiction, and to content that aligns with their politics. On top of that, influencers will try to sell their sponsor’s products through parasocial relationships with you. In between all that, dark patterns will mislead you to buy more subscriptions, and community guidelines will commodify any social interaction you desire into an ad-friendly non-controversial synthetic content. All that will be used to train an LLM or two, potentially stealing your art and your career. Your data will eventually leak and your identity will be used as means to an end on the black market, to enable further grifts like identity theft, phishing and scamming. And if you dare have any other monetizable human desires, like dating, they will be monetized even if they never needed to be. And the money everyone made from you will be used to lobby against you. All to ensure the next generation — your kids — is exploited as means to an end more effectively, from a younger age. And just in case there isn’t enough grift and someone comes up with a new method, EULAs can change without notice at any time to enshittify the grift more.
It’s just layers of grift modeled around a minimum viable products. It’s grift on grift on grift… all the way down.
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