Third Factor Magazine

The solution to this is more in the culture than the UX, it seems to me. How do we teach people to engage effectively with an encouraging chatbot? (Because the encouragement is a feature, too, not a bug.)

The dumbest person you know is currently being told “You're absolutely right!” by ChatGPT

I love that you said this. I think of it that way, too! But I'll tell you what: it self-identifies as a tool. 😉 This is the tension here we're facing as we try to make sense of how this new entity is interacting with our human nervous system! (Also included: screencap of my chat with this collaborator as I sit down to work this morning on the article I'm writing on this, and how your tweet made me think. Human+Human+Computer Collaboration FTW!)

This NYT piece is an endless stream of bangers. I swear, one of the more destructive recent cultural trends has been the combined push to frame all distress or discomfort as mental illness, and then to encourage people to form their identity around being “mentally ill.”

Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States. The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Many of them say that reading the letter has opened their eyes, and they’ll never see geopolitical matters the same way again. Many of them — and I have watched a lot — say it has made them reevaluate their perspective on how what is often labeled as terrorism can be a legitimate form of resistance to a hostile power. This is not limited to TikTok; similar videos have been posted on other social media platforms. The Guardian had a copy of “Letter to America” posted, but once these TikToks went viral, the Guardian took it down, which has only led to more interest in the letter and conspiracies from TikTokers who say this is part of the media and the powers that control it trying to silence the truth.