Platforms like Facebook show how user-first systems can decay over time. Cory Doctorow calls this 'enshittification,' a cycle where platforms shift from serving user interests to serving stakeholder goals.AI may follow the same path. High compute costs and financial losses are pushing companies toward ads, paywalls, and 'freemium' features, weakening the free user experience.Declining model quality, limited free tiers, embedded ads in chatbots, and opaque ranking systems are among the early signs of the enshittification of AI. This raises concerns on how this AI breakdown would follow the same path seen in old tech platforms like Facebook.The post Are We Ready for AI Enshittification? What Happens When the Systems You Trust Suddenly Stop Working appeared first on Techreport.