AI Double Header: Google IO follows ChatGPT 4o
Yesterday, May 13, 2024, Open AI demoed and released their new model, ChatGPT 4o. The “o” seems to stand for Omni Model, which blends together the various modalities of a multi-model LLM (text, vision, audio). While this model may not have rolled out to all free user yet, it is expected to within two weeks.
It’s not just you, software is getting worse.
You may have noticed that software seems to be getting worse lately, it’s even resulted in a term called “enshittification,” coined by Cory Doctorow. He also has called it “platform decay,” and we would add an older term to the mix called “dark patterns.”