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Advanced high technology is the seamless fusion of bits and atoms. It is adding intelligence to industry, rather than removing industry and leaving only information.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
Design tactics like mimicking human-like interactions, open-ended follow ups, and easy to bypass safety features are intentionally baked in to these products. The end goal is sustained user engagement. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Companies could choose to turn off human-like behavior as a default option. They can then set limits on how much users can engage daily and leverage their systems' sophisticated memory features to recognize when someone is in crisis and respond appropriately rather than just showing generic pop-up warnings.
Key Takeaways: How ChatGPT's Design Led to a Teenager's Death
Center for Humane Technology
In this world, the patriarchal bourgeoisie’s last refuge from market control—the domestic household—has been annihilated, its content evacuated into grids of administration. The most important thing is to “know the rules of the game.”
Mr. Lonely
Emily Greenhouse
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