They'll probably go for the ad-free subscription model first, and then slowly put more and more things behind that paywall.

Enshittification is rarely a single leap... it's a slow march made up of many steps.

... at a college level.

Crazy laws from crazy people...

"You'll own nothing, and you'll love it!"

Why aren't you loving it? Your overlords specifically requested it!

How did you figure that one?

Perfect is the enemy of good.

I accidentally moderated this down, so here's a comment to veto all my moderation on this thread!

Birds die just as much by flying into buildings as they do windmills.

Why are they pretending like the end-goal isn't going to be wall-to-wall ads in ChatGPT?

It anyone stupid enough to think that subscriptions are going to make them over $1.5 trillion in profit???

https://forgejo.org/ is a generally better option as a fork of Gitea, since it's run by a proper open-source foundation rather than a for-profit company.

While we haven't left GitHub where I work yet, we have set up our own Forgejo instance with a queue worker just in case.

It's only a matter of time until GitHub becomes fully enshittified.

The problem is the amount of enshittification that ChatGPT will have to underdo to make any serious amount of money.

A Google search is going to cost fractions of a cent, whereas some estimates put a ChatGPT query as costing around 36 cents.

Assuming that they maintain their free tier, that's a hell of a lot of expenses to offset before you even start to dent other expenses and start to approach profit.

So once the "growth phase" is done, I would expect ChatGPT to be quickly stuffed full of every type of advertising you can imagine.

With the amount of money that investors have sunk into AI, corporations are going to have to put so many adverts into every facet of genAI to even hope to make enough money back once the "growth phase" finishes.

Trump didn't force you to get behind a cognitive invalid. Trump didn't select a vacuous token VP for the same ticket.

Pretty rude way to talk about Trump and JD Vance there...

eliminate unnecessary code

Starting with Apple "Intelligence" should be an easy win!