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Comment by Cory Doctorow
Author and digital rights activist
AI is very enshittification-prone: as 'black boxes' that do not produce reliable, deterministic outputs, AI products have a lot of intrinsic cover for their enshittifying behavior.AI Verified source (2026)
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The sentence appears on the Pluralistic post “The enshittification multiverse,” dated April 27, 2026, and that page lists the author as Cory Doctorow. The wording matches the supplied quote; the only trivial formatting difference is that the source uses double quotation marks around “black boxes,” not single quotes. ([pluralistic.net](https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/27/analogs-and-analogies/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Source URL returned 403, but web search verified the exact quote from Cory Doctorow's pluralistic.net article "The enshittification multiverse" (April 27, 2026), also republished on Medium. Vote "for" statement "Digital services deteriorate as they scale up" aligns with Doctorow's well-known enshittification thesis applied here specifically to AI products. Year 2026 is current.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Cory Doctorow