But what's really funny is it usually takes many years for enshittification to happen in a tech platform. The genAI industry is staring down a troubling bubble and the threat of their funding drying up, so it appears they have slammed their enshittification process into overdrive. 4/

oh my going theory for a while has been that every llm inevitably becomes a synecdoche for the entire company because the process of training them inevitably leeches the personality of the stakeholders into it

That seems to be the general thought.
It always sounds like companies are afraid they might be missing out on huge benefits in the future if they don't lean into AI in one way or another. But I'm not sure how much the pressure from competitors plays into this.