I wanted to post this here so bad that I found another vulnerability in my weekday social media block out system to get on here.
“There should be a license you can lose when you write this kind of trash. That license, in this case, would be permission to use words like “intelligence” and “intuition” in a sentence for publication.”
I just read Naomi Klein’s No Logo, and despite being so late to that party It’s not hard to imagine how big an impact it had in its time at identifying the brand being the product more than the things the businesses made (*sold)....
yes, still very much in that zone too. The web has been design system’d to death. I don’t think you can even find out what the thing is via the site now, I guess that’s a big part of my ranting, that they really don’t want to assert what it is too clearly. Hence the “but it’s so easy to use” being the brand.
I agree, I don’t think many of the things I criticise about the UX industry are the result of a conscious decision, but no less insidious. It’s a good point though, I also remember the emergence of UX as a thing when there would be talk about it being everything - as if things like usability, accessibility, customer service, QA, etc never existed before.
just want to share my article from this week. It’s about products that account for their lack of usefulness with ease of use. Using the gpt-4oh as an example. fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-pote…
oh that reminds me of Anthropic’s company values page where they call it “unusually high trust” to believe that their employees work there in “good faith”
thanks! I had to squeeze one out to avoid a whole year passing since my last blog post. Hopefully will keep 'em coming from here on. Settled nicely in Amsterdam now
that’s correct. faw for faster and worse. I keep it in a public repo if you’re interested. (I don’t maintain it like a public repo, though. so lemme know if you have questions) github.com/stevesydney/faw
I can’t help think of this song whenever I hear about the day’s new tech product that has the potential to change the worldwww.youtube.com/watch?v=3BngCSGJJNo
This is just a draft, best refrain from linking. (I hope we’ll get this up tomorrow or Monday. edit: probably this week? edit 2: it’s up!!) The [bracketed] stuff is links to cites....
Defector: If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell? (defector.com)
Is this a thing? UX is the new brand
I just read Naomi Klein’s No Logo, and despite being so late to that party It’s not hard to imagine how big an impact it had in its time at identifying the brand being the product more than the things the businesses made (*sold)....
Incorrect information about large language models
irrelevant header image...
Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/12406642...
Remember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lie (www.nytimes.com)
archive archive.ph/is57b
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
A rant on products without purpose (fasterandworse.com)
from @fasterandworse of this parish
draft of our next AI section
This is just a draft, best refrain from linking. (I hope we’ll get this up tomorrow or Monday. edit: probably this week? edit 2: it’s up!!) The [bracketed] stuff is links to cites....