Sure, I may have just sung praises for ChatGPT, an AI in its own right. But I can't deny that AI is making certain parts of our lives worse, whether by eroding our critical thinking skills, cutting jobs, or hogging precious resources like water, electricity, and hardware (and jacking up prices for everyday folks in the meantime). Then there is the enshittification of the programs that use AI to supposedly make improvements. Take Google.ai, for example. Right now, it is a free, ad-free service that delivers answers from Google's AI. But you can bet that it won't stay that way for long, and the folks at Boing Boing decided to ask it exactly that. They asked Google.ai...