Facebook. (When Zuck was asked how he amassed so much personal information about people, he famously answered: “They ‘trust me.’ Dumb f*cks.”) Growing up, we were told it was foolish to post personally identifying information to the Internet, then the generation that told us that flocked to facebook.
Credit scores. (Less the concept, namely the fact that they’re used so extensively to judge people based on arbitrary rules. It’s stupid that the companies behind them are still operating after major breaches involving more information than they should have had in the first place. The average person seems too dumb to care what happens with their personal information, sadly.)
Services like “Grammarly”. Some folks noted below that there are some legitimate use cases as an accessibility tool, but the service itself seems to target the English-native people “Oh whatever you know what I meant” crowd, to help them sound smart in emails.
And all this other Ai stuff that seems to market itself on the premise that the user is a complete moron who needs to escape the consequences of their ineptitude.
Almost every Ai commercial features someone using Ai tools to quickly cover up the fact that they forgot their partner’s birthday, or quickly cobble together some work memo because they were sleeping or something. (Okay that last one can be kinda based amirite lol.)
Edit: Explanations added because I’m fine being disagreed with but maybe I didn’t communicate very well lol.
This sounds interesting and I actually haven’t heard of it being used for this before.
What about dyslexia-friendly typefaces though? Would that be more practical?🤔
I’ll be honest a lot of my opinion of the service comes from being spammed ads featuring a targetted customer that’s just too lazy to be hassled with the burden of learning decent communication, and has money to spend lol.
It’s worth noting that those dyslexia typefaces are at best neutral for helping those with dyslexia. It’s a marketing thing. I did a deep dive on this recently.
Thanks for the insight! I don’t really have much experience to go off of, since I don’t experience dyslexia myself, but if you happen to have a link to your deep dive I’d be curious!
I’m an aspiring indie game dev, and accessibility is something I think is too often ignored.
Facebook. (When Zuck was asked how he amassed so much personal information about people, he famously answered: “They ‘trust me.’ Dumb f*cks.”) Growing up, we were told it was foolish to post personally identifying information to the Internet, then the generation that told us that flocked to facebook.
Credit scores. (Less the concept, namely the fact that they’re used so extensively to judge people based on arbitrary rules. It’s stupid that the companies behind them are still operating after major breaches involving more information than they should have had in the first place. The average person seems too dumb to care what happens with their personal information, sadly.)
Services like “Grammarly”. Some folks noted below that there are some legitimate use cases as an accessibility tool, but the service itself seems to target the English-native people “Oh whatever you know what I meant” crowd, to help them sound smart in emails.
And all this other Ai stuff that seems to market itself on the premise that the user is a complete moron who needs to escape the consequences of their ineptitude.
Almost every Ai commercial features someone using Ai tools to quickly cover up the fact that they forgot their partner’s birthday, or quickly cobble together some work memo because they were sleeping or something. (Okay that last one can be kinda based amirite lol.)
Edit: Explanations added because I’m fine being disagreed with but maybe I didn’t communicate very well lol.
Grammarly can be quite useful to people who are not dumb but have dyslexia.
This sounds interesting and I actually haven’t heard of it being used for this before.
What about dyslexia-friendly typefaces though? Would that be more practical?🤔
I’ll be honest a lot of my opinion of the service comes from being spammed ads featuring a targetted customer that’s just too lazy to be hassled with the burden of learning decent communication, and has money to spend lol.
It’s worth noting that those dyslexia typefaces are at best neutral for helping those with dyslexia. It’s a marketing thing. I did a deep dive on this recently.
Thanks for the insight! I don’t really have much experience to go off of, since I don’t experience dyslexia myself, but if you happen to have a link to your deep dive I’d be curious!
I’m an aspiring indie game dev, and accessibility is something I think is too often ignored.
But grammarly gets it wrong.
If it was perfect, then sure.