How AI features are pushed

Researchers Nolwenn Maudet, Anaëlle Beignon and Thomas Thibault looked at how tech companies are forcing AI on us.

They can deploy it faster than before:

Unlike previous technological evolutions, companies can now, through updates and softwares hosted in the cloud, transform interfaces overnight, affecting all users in an instant.

(From: How tech companies are pushing us to use AI | Limites numériques)

Their guide, based on their research (linked in the guide), shows how most of these tools are put front and center of UIs, are always on and hard to disable, and are presented as magic or a smart assistant.

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is in the W3C's AB. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, W3C/WAI, national and local governments, Sanoma Learning and others as a freelancer. Hidde is a public speaker (all 79 talks). In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing apps of our decade.

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