I Will Never Respect A Website

Source: Where’s Your Ed At Date: 2026-04-14 URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/

Summary

AI companies have knowingly sold subscriptions they cannot reliably maintain at promised prices and quality, degrading service to existing customers as a capacity management tactic. Zitron argues that Anthropic and OpenAI simultaneously exploit user attachment and spread fear-based rhetoric about job displacement — keep users hooked, keep them anxious, and the economics of the scam hold together longer.

Implications

Less about the financial bubble, more about the consumer harm layer — vendors are degrading products they’ve already sold.

• AI financial sustainability. Service degradation as cost-management is a sign unit economics are already breaking. Watch for capability regressions framed as “improvements” or quiet context-window reductions.
• Vendor BS detection. Job-displacement rhetoric is load-bearing here — it manufactures urgency that keeps churn low even as product quality drops. Intensifying job-displacement messaging ahead of price increases is a tell.
• Watch: subscription pricing changes, response quality benchmarks over time, and whether fear-of-replacement rhetoric spikes alongside service degradations.