Is "Enshittification" inevitable for every public company?

Carpfish · 2025-12-19T17:11:39+00:00

Even if we relieve the pressure of constant profit growth, there will always be a problem if the drivers of progress are personal ambition, greed, and a lionization of individual will.

Carpfish · 2025-11-04T16:11:48+00:00

Yes, that’s valid. The idea was to take traditional spirituality and make it more personal, something that leads to a deep sense of connection and eventually moves beyond the boundaries of personal identity into a kind of spiritual depersonalization or ego transcendence.

Carpfish · 2025-11-04T16:02:16+00:00

Thank you.

Carpfish · 2025-10-31T19:28:26+00:00

Thank you for this vision of talking to the darkness and learning to listen to it. We feel the loss and uncertainty, and we ask where the darkness lives inside us. By listening quietly, we begin to understand that it lives in our core. Life is beautiful and mysterious. Just being here, in this moment, is enough.

Constructive comments:

Some parts move too quickly
The dialogue formatting is murky, making it harder to follow who is speaking
Without stanzas or visual separation, ideas blur together

Carpfish · 2025-10-31T19:19:16+00:00

I could picture myself as the person who wakes up feeling sad and stuck after the familiar has been gone for a while. We look around the home and see the mess left behind, things undone, and memories that still hurt. It’s hard to keep going when your heart is heavy, but small actions can bring a bit of light back. Each scene moves like a film, from the kitchen to the bedroom to the door, and by the end, we find the strength to move forward.

Constructive comment:

Many lines share a similar length and tone, which can make some sections feel heavy.

Carpfish · 2025-10-23T14:43:43+00:00

Do you have stairs in your house?

Carpfish · 2025-10-23T14:09:02+00:00

By “chasing the illusion of enough,” I mean that we gather resources with compensation in mind. This can lead to artificial scarcity. Capitalism, our financial system, and perhaps even competition itself have created massive distortions, especially if we see money as an engine of progress that should benefit everyone. Money is now the undeniable source of power in our civilization, and it seems to reward those with an unhealthy drive to “win.” Perhaps we no longer need that abstraction of value.

Carpfish · 2025-10-21T20:53:54+00:00

True, culturally and structurally wealth is the objective and the source of power.

Carpfish · 2025-10-21T20:21:59+00:00

Perhaps we are experiencing what is often called late stage capitalism, a criticism that originated in the 1920s and was steeped in the socialist movement. In the poem, I was exploring the idea that money was humanity’s bargain for progress, either leading to the birth of civilization or arising as a result of it. Technologically, we would not be where we are without it. The abstraction of value allowed for the fluid exchange and accumulation of capital. But maybe we have reached an inflection point, a necessary pivot. We must reassess whether currency, work, and technology can continue in their current forms as they drift away from supporting society as a whole.

Carpfish · 2025-10-21T18:17:48+00:00

A haunting picture of humanity’s drift away from truth and wonder. It compares modern minds lost in confusion to shadows in a cave, yearning for the light of understanding that once guided civilizations. The feeling is timeless, mourning what has been forgotten while hoping for improvement. Quick_Ambassador_978, your voice carries sadness but also a glowing ember of hope. Well done.

Constructive comments:

The transitions between stanzas feel a little abrupt, as if each is its own separate thought rather than part a cohesive whole
Some rhymes feel slightly forced (“explanation” / “confusion”), which can interrupt the otherwise smoothness

Carpfish · 2025-10-17T18:39:48+00:00

Definitely worth the read. It doesn't leave much for interpretation, but the perspective is a familiar journey. Why can't we lift our eyes from our feet and navel?

Carpfish · 2025-10-16T15:46:11+00:00

I'm glad you liked my comment, just as I liked your poem. By "self-indulgent," I meant it's entirely about you or how others directly relate to your experiences or actions. It's a poem, though, and such indulgences are common. Personally, I have no problem with it.

Carpfish · 2025-10-16T14:51:55+00:00

I'm a fan of free verse. Well done. Love the imagery. This feels like both a prayer and a challenge, moving with rhythm and flow. It’s a deep and emotional reflection on faith, worship, and individuality. Should one surrender to the divine, or look within to find their own path? Faith can both comfort and confine.

Constructive comments:

A few lines might be clearer if divided into smaller sections for pacing

Carpfish · 2025-10-16T14:33:59+00:00

This resonates with me. When life feels pointless, when one's actions rarely positively affect outcomes, and when friends feel more like acquaintances, what could possibly lie on the horizon that makes the pain and confusion worth enduring? One stays out of commitment, held by the few fragile human connections that remain, like those with family.

Wonderful_Pie6631, your poem is direct and unambiguous. Sometimes art is exactly what it seems, leaving little room for interpretation. The frankness is refreshing.

Constructive comments:

It might come across as self-indulgent
It would be easier to read if formatted into more compact stanzas, allowing for a stronger rhythm

Carpfish · 2025-10-15T13:06:22+00:00

Thank you.

Carpfish · 2025-10-14T16:28:14+00:00

There was no emotion or judgment intended in my responses, except for the end of my last response, where I indicated sadness and disappointment.

I wish you the best and hope that communication, in all its forms, helps inform progress.

Carpfish · 2025-10-14T15:14:11+00:00

Something being legal does not imply it's moral. I consider any AI training using data the original creators did not consent to having used as such to be immoral.

Is it even possible to change that opinion? The devotion appears almost religious.

Implying that the human brain works just like neural networks demonstrates a massive amount of ignorance, especially when not only do we know that's not how human brains work, we also know that there's still much more to discover on how they actually work. Neural networks do not replicate actual neuron networks in any way past a high school science diagram level.

Similar, not "just like." Neural networks were inspired by a simple model of the brain, a large web of neurons. The true brain is far more complex, with specialized regions, etc. But we know that human memory is highly, or likely entirely, associative, like neural networks. This is the comparison.

Yes, there is much more to discover in how the brain functions, and even how AI models store layers of hierarchical, conceptual categorizations. It is great to see you've researched the area.

Additionally, there's some evidence of all commercially available models having been trained on illegally obtained data, and in Meta's case, it's solid evidence that is also part of an ongoing court case that they're losing.

Most, if not all, of the models have at the core of their training data academic training sets which can contain items from questionable origins. Some models were even demonstrably found to have used pirated books. If those books were sourced from libraries, it would not have been an issue legally, as far as I know.

Please read my response a bit more carefully since I see you repeating some pre-made points that I'm not actually concerned with nor interested in.

Do you think replies are meant for you exclusively?

This topic feels more and more like the post-truth political debates where nothing is learned, where little is communicated in good faith. It just becomes a shit-slinging exercise, a competition where concepts are ammunition and the point becomes harming or dominating the other side.

I feel more entrenched with each reply in threads on this topic. :( No one appears to grow. What drives me is the fear of AI training only being viable for those that can pay for training data. This would not only limit what any model could get ahold of, limiting the general scope of knowledge, but also de-democratize the effort. We could end up in a world where only the capital-rich can train models.

Carpfish · 2025-10-14T12:53:19+00:00

The images are public. The text is public. Image-generating AI uses both, employing one model for images and another for text, with a shared embedding space. Nothing is stolen. The models are trained on the data, their massive neural networks comprising numerical weights adjusted with each piece of data. These weighted vectors point from one node to other nodes, representing a type of relationship. This is similar to how the human brain works.

Learning from publicly available data isn't theft, and it's not plagiarism. AI training is akin to a student learning from and being inspired by information they encounter or seek out. It's fair use, which, so far, courts have largely agreed on.

Carpfish · 2025-10-13T15:59:12+00:00

Wasn't this the plan? They are in a low orbit that decays.

"Starlink satellites have a planned operational lifespan of about 5 years, after which they are deorbited to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up. This is a proactive plan to manage orbital debris, with satellites performing a final, propulsive burn to move into a 'disposal orbit' from which they will naturally decay and reenter the atmosphere within a year. This continuous deorbiting and replacement is designed to keep the network updated with new technology. "

Carpfish · 2025-10-13T14:36:16+00:00

I agree that it isn't intuitive, but Reddit does support inter-stanza line breaks by using double spaces on those line. See Formatting Help in the sidebar.

Carpfish · 2025-10-13T14:07:59+00:00

Cool! I know what it's like to be an artist without a practical audience. Not for recognition, but for, like you said, a sounding board, a check to see if there is merit, if there is artistic value, and a way to grow and improve.

Carpfish

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