jonoleth

@nazokiyoubinbou I pray to whatever will listen that the AI-fication won't stick around after the bubble bursts

@nazokiyoubinbou @billyjoebowers sorry, I should have been clearer. I agree with you that it's too elaborate to be a deliberate plan; rather I think those are the reasons it's become so widespread and pervasive, and why there's no reason for companies to act differently. Giving more control to users would invalidate or lessen existing short-term business strategies that arise in low-control contexts, so the trend only ever goes one way.

@nazokiyoubinbou @billyjoebowers I've always assumed (without proof) that the companies benefit by conditioning people to just accept whatever they get cause there's nothing they can do to improve the result anyway. That in turn makes it easier to steer people to the results they want, like ads or content they want to promote or something else.

The less control people have of their experience, the less specific are their expectations

@proedie @riley after obsessing a little over getting to the bottom of this, the answer seems to be that the historical origin (from 1711) is akin to "If you stop chasing trends you will sometimes be fashionable", which is more in line with riley's definition in the OP. The other "official" definitions I've found seem to follow this as well.

The definition that "coincidental correctness is worthless" seems to be a personal (though common) interpretation.

@proedie @riley given a cursory googling and this reddit poll, it doesn't seem like the meaning is that clear to the average person

https://www.reddit.com/r/polls/comments/1brhoj4/how_do_you_interpret_the_saying_a_broken_clock_is/