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It’s time to retire the term “user” (archive.today)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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because we shouldn't be humanizing AI while depersonalizing the actual people who use stuff, according to MIT Technology Review.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

UXers

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

why use more char when few char do trick

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Exact same number of characters (5), and "UXers" requires pressing the shift key while "users" doesn't. So it's a fail from the typing efficiency point of view.

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think they mean UX, as in user experience. So, a UXer is someone who works in that field.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

UXers aren’t users. I’m talking about the designers

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

Firstly the article doesn’t advocate for using “humans” instead; in fact, it devotes half of the two sentences for the term to guess why that term would be off-putting. The article includes suggestions of “people” and “interactors”. Secondly I posted this solely because I found its arguments interesting. I’m neutral on the term, same as “master”.