Bad news: Google is rolling out generative AI tools for video creation (Google Vids). It's turned on by default for all Google Workspace users.

Good news: If you turn off Google Vids for your domain, your users won't be able to open Vids files shared with them. Hooray for avoiding deep fakes!

Go forth and disable the latest generative AI nonesense: https://support.google.com/a/answer/14896418

#enshittification
#generativeAI

Seriously, I agree with @geerlingguy and I'll refuse to buy @internetofshit / #InternetOfShit devices.

• Seriously, shite like this should be not only #illegal, but prosecuted as fraud.

There is no legitimate reason a #Dishwasher needs #Internet access or an #App.

• You know what my #WashingMachine needs to start (or finish) at a certain time? Me knowing how many hours it'll be from now on till it has to start (and some 2nd grade math to add the time till the program finishes)... IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A SHITTY CLOCK INSIDE!!!

Seriously, I'm just mad at this #Enshittification!

Google Search:
Not finding it very shit.

How YouTube harms creators https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250414/ #YouTube #Enshittification

"Evolution of Apps" by Marketoonist comic / Tom Fishburne - Falling for the temptation to sacrifice customer needs for increasingly-unrealistic margin goals leads to customer dissatisfaction and decline, giving the lead away to more nimble competition. https://marketoonist.com/2025/04/evolution-of-apps.html #business #enshittification #oops

I think YouTube harms users and creators. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250414/ #YouTube #Enshittification

If you are sad that the term #enshittification has escaped the lab and is now used to mean everything and nothing, try the term #reintermediation and see if it captures it better and is more resilient to mutation.

It's boring and it's already a financial term that banks unashamedly think is a good thing, but I don't think #ReUnDisintermediation stands a chance, even if I'd like it to.

Maybe #CaptiveReintermediation retains more of that sinister tone.

> Students Found Out AI Will Help Read Their Names at Commencement. Protest Ensued. https://www.chronicle.com/article/students-found-out-ai-will-help-read-their-names-at-commencement-protest-ensued

In #ChampagneProblems. Don't get me wrong. This IS #fuckery, but they are lucky someone reads their name. When I graduated undergrad at Big Land Grant U, they just put our names on screens above stage and we all marched like cattle to get our diplomas.

How YouTube harms creators https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250414/ #YouTube #Enshittification

Fun #enshittification artefact arising from the Carole Cadwalladr talk, “This is what a digital coup looks like”.

In it she rightly says:

“We have to learn how to digitally disobey”

and includes as an example

“Don’t accept the cookies”.

And if on iOS you block cookies and then go to https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like

…the page doesn’t load its content except for a thumbnail of her talk and no video player.

That, and that Ted are inviting Sam Altman tells us quite a lot

For some reason, Apple Maps is showing my arrival time in UTC but the local time everywhere else.

Siri also can’t tell me what the current UTC time is unless I enable ChatGPT.

One fundamental thing I wish was in more disability writings about AI, for example, this unquestioningly PR hype by @steven_aquino gets so close to hitting on the point I wish more would tackle. Even with the best technology, we're still disabled. This is ultimately why I find Techno Ableism to be particularly misleading. To be clear, he isn't peddling techno Ableism, but many in the blind community do. When this tech moves behind an expensive paywall, which, it will, the bandage for societies inaccessibility will be locked behind a steep paywall and I wish more examined what happens when #Enshittification comes for AI and how society and ableism haven't changed. https://www.curbcuts.co/blog/2025-4-9-googles-april-pixel-drop-shows-how-ai-can-be-more-transformative-than-trivial-pursuit #AI #AIHype

Breaking: Tim Cook announces new Public Viewing Platform at #Apple Campus.

Staff will be able to peer over their walled garden and see non believers scrabbling to survive.

That Plant in the White House is really paying dividends.

#Enshittification being a plot line for a #BlackMirror episode made me unreasonably angry.

Fascism ads on your TVs and screens are just the beginning.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/vizio-shows-what-happens-when-u-s-fascism-and-tv-enshittification-meet/

Love this concept in relation to #enshittification:

"If companies [google/facebook/etc] debuted today with they product they currently offer, would you be convinced to use it?"

Hahahaha no.