Human dignity

Tina He explains our discomfort with AI:

What unsettles us is AI's supreme indifference, or commonly called "slop," which is also synonymous with the lacking of soul.

Software doesn’t hate, plot, or hold a grudge. It optimizes. That optimization, crucially, includes the effectiveness of language—words as system output, not as evidence of intent.

(From: AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion - by Tina He - Fakepixels)

And then explains that this indifference, that leads to humans being reduced to function, ‘cuts at the heart of our dignity’. Yup yup yup, and that's very, very dystopian.

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 79 events, most recently in Bristol, UK.

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