> Let the enshittification begin
But is there a solution to this though?
How does one stop 'enshittification' of everything exactly?
I'm not talking just about Anthropic.
One thing Doctorow suggests is to remove anti-circumvention, thus allowing adversarial interoperability.
Competition Enforcement
Strong privacy laws
Tech unionization
Mandated data portability.
The solution is mostly not to go public. Valve is a good example of this.
Do well enough that you don't need outside investors, or if you take on outside investors select them carefully and ensure they don't expect an IPO.