Will AI Fall Victim to Enshittification? A Reddit Debate on Quality vs. Profit
Shryquill · reddit · 2026-10-09
A Reddit discussion asks whether AI services will suffer the same "enshittification" as past tech products, given that the same tech giants are behind them.
Key points:
- AI has displaced workers and embedded itself at every level of business, so quality degradation for profit could be far more consequential than with ordinary services
- Companies are currently burning "unfathomable" amounts of money just to sustain today's level of service, far from break-even
- When they eventually need to break even or turn a profit, service quality is likely to suffer
The author sees no reason AI should be insulated from the profit-driven decay that has plagued nearly every other online service.
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