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Charlie Stross

The security bugfix iOS release 18.3.1 "fixes" the very useful bug in Apple Intelligence that stops it working if the AI language is different from the system language—and re-enables Apple Intelligence.

This is #enshittification in action, at Apple. (I turned AI off because DO NOT WANT, EVER, PERIOD.)

Angus McIntyre

@cstross Do we need a different word from to describe forcible insertion of unwanted features into products or services? As I understand it, @pluralistic’s term describes a quite specific multi-step process, not simply "making things worse”.

I propose “encruftening” for "adding unrequested and undesirable features to an existing product”, which covers "AI", blockchain & whatever other horrors they have in store for us. Other suggestions?

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Charlie Stross

@angusm Call it "Hogwashing"—because it's hogwash, and anyway, AI-generated output is slop, which is what we feed pigs on.

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Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏

@angusm @cstross In software development we refer to this as "gold plating", generally adding crap that looks nice on a feature list but does little to improve functionality.

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