Re: question 3, I think Cory Doctorow explains it best as the process he calls "enshittification," wherein "first, [companies] are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves." More at https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys.
Re: question 3, I think Cory Doctorow explains it best as the process he calls "enshittification," wherein "first, [companies] are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves." More at https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys.
precisely!! everyone's out for a buck--doesn't matter who falls around them. It's a sad state.
Well, a sad state, but hardly a new one--some will rob you with a six gun; some with a fountain pen, as Mr. Guthrie sang.
an excellent reference