Every now and then a new and unique explanation makes sense.

https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5

‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything

Last year, I coined the term “enshittification” to describe the way that platforms decay. That obscene little word did big numbers; it really hit the zeitgeist.

The American Dialect Society made it its Word of the Year for 2023 (which, I suppose, means that now I’m definitely getting a poop emoji on my tombstone).

So what’s enshittification and why did it catch fire? It’s my theory explaining how the internet was colonised by platforms, why all those platforms are degrading so quickly and thoroughly, why it matters and what we can do about it. We’re all living through a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. It’s demoralising. It’s even terrifying.

Perspective.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/02/10/ai-artificial-intelligence-attorney-court

The AI Lawyer is Here

… The California Innocence Project, a law clinic at the California Western School of Law that works to overturn wrongful convictions, is using an AI legal assistant called CoCounsel to identify patterns in documents, such as inconsistencies in witness statements.

But the new technology also presents myriad opportunities for things to go wrong, beyond embarrassing lawyers who try to pass off AI-generated work as their own. One major issue is confidentiality. What happens when a client provides information to a lawyer’s chatbot, instead of the lawyer? Is that information still protected by the secrecy of attorney-client privilege? What happens if a lawyer enters a client’s personal information into an AI-tool that is simultaneously training itself on that information? Could the right prompt by an opposing lawyer using the same tool serve to hand that information over?