Let's reconsider our "users"
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Let's reconsider our "users"
“It’s only software developers and drug dealers who call people users,” Kosmyna mutters at one point, frustrated at AI companies’ determination to push their products on to the public before we fully understand the psychological and cognitive costs.
Reducing humans to "users" in this race to monetize attention is subtly but profoundly dehumanizing.
Google and Facebook don’t have “users” or “customers”. Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined within Big Data silos.