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If "enshittification" includes "companies improving products but not making improvements available for free use by others", then it's a meaningless term.

• newswasboring 3y ago
  Enshittification means companies breaking the social contract they started with, and in some cases like openAI completely reverse it. You can't have "Open Weights models" as your tag line and just proceed to become exactly not that. That is enshittification by any standards.
  • fragmede 3y ago
    It's more about companies going from offering good value to their users, to extracting value from their userbase, and the changes to the produy along the way, as Cory Doctorow coined it. Put that way, is Mistrial changiy directions not releasing future models that? I don't disagree that this move sucks, but it's not like they just changed a secret setting so their model you're currently running on your computer is now secretly uploading your incognito browsing habits to their servers. They changed what they're going to sell/release, going forwards, but that's it. No users got abused here, from my POV, but maybe I'm not seeing it.
  • shuckles 3y ago
    No, enshittification as proposed as a term for marketplace operators or platform providers who slowly degrade the experience for dependent users in order to capture more of the value created. Mistral is not a platform; it's a technology vendor. You can apply words however arbitrarily you want, but it just makes them meaningless.