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2xsaiko ,
@2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Recently, I met with a founder who cringed when his colleague used the word “humans” instead of “users.” He wasn’t sure why.

Yeah because it sounds super weird. Who says “humans” instead of “people”.

  • “my app has 2000 users” - yes
  • "2000 people use my app" - yes
  • "2000 humans use my app" - you’re definitely an alien

Either way what a stupid article. The AI angle pretty much makes me dismiss it outright because I refuse to let AI dictate anything I do except for adding AI crawlers to my website’s robots.txt. And then you’ve got the corporate focus which is also really strange since that’s not the only place where there’s “users”. Open-source software also has users (and developers, so if you want to replace “users” with “people”, does that mean developers are not people?) and I would be insulted if someone implied I “depersonalize” the people who use my software by calling them users. It’s just a descriptive word and this article and everyone quoted here seems like they’re trying to pull a bad connotation to the word out of thin air.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Better solution: Don’t call AI a “user.”

Keep it like Tron. Users are explicitly human.

rhys ,

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.

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

no captcha annoyance

technologyreview.com/…/ai-users-people-terms/

Aatube OP ,

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.

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

I saw no paywall, maybe thanks to some uBO config

Aatube OP ,

I'd attribute it to the bypass paywalls extension, which was taken down from GitHub last week

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

i’m not using it

givesomefucks ,

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.

Aatube OP ,

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.

givesomefucks ,

UXers

…

Aatube OP ,

why use more char when few char do trick

n3cr0 ,

There is a little difference between a user and an abuser.

Aatube OP ,

could you explain how this is related? i'm not very good at communication, sorry.

yesman ,

As a consumer and a low skilled worker I think the solution to call the rich “dinner”.

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