because we shouldn’t be humanizing AI while depersonalizing the actual people who use stuff, according to MIT Technology Review.
There is a little difference between a user and an abuser.
no captcha annoyance
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/19/1090872/ai-users-people-terms/
I’m pretty sure the article is paywalled, which is why I used an archive link. Also, archive.today is notorious for using an endless captcha against people who use a Cloudflare DNS because archive.today wants to redirect you to a server with capacity based on approximate IP location. I should’ve used web.archive but only archive.today is supported by this really convenient extension to get an archive link.
I’d attribute it to the bypass paywalls extension, which was taken down from GitHub last week
The authors only other article was two years ago about psychedelics…
And from as far as I could make it I to this one, it sounds like she’s been on them continuously.
It’s just such a stupid thing to get upset and write about.
Are you claiming that the many UXers cited within the article, including the one who invented the term, have been on psychedlics as well? Sure, it’s a small issue, but that doesn’t negate it.
Excuse me, “UXers” is not the preferred term any more. You should be using “HXers”, as per the article.
In my opinion, replacing “users” with “humans” feels wrong in much the same way as when incels replace “women” with “females”.
They are reducing the accuracy of the description. All users of computers can generally be assumed to be human. All humans cannot generally be assumed to also be users.
As a consumer and a low skilled worker I think the solution to call the rich “dinner”.
None of these companies would ever ever ever want to replace the ‘user’ metric with a ‘human’ metric.
Infinite growth requires infinite well, growth, and tossing out ANY portion of their MAU number would tank all of them immediately.
And, of course, they know this, and they know the MAU number is a giant pile of lies, so uh, good luck with changing terminology?
I like the human-centred language, strange as it feels on the tongue. I wonder if it might help frame development a bit better in place of ‘user’ or ‘customer’ — aside from the more real distinction between humans and AI we’re all going to have to get used to in design.
