AI Backlash, Claude, Facebook, Good UX, and Shower Ideas
Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 Unstructured Data
😡 AI Backlash
🖼️ Claude AI
👥 Facebook
🙏 Good UX
🛁 Shower Ideas
Podcast
Structured Thinking for Unstructured Data: A Conversation with Founder Kirk Marple
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle is joined by Kirk Marple, founder and CEO of Graphlit, to explore the world of unstructured data and how it’s transforming with the rise of LLMs and AI-native tools. Kirk shares his journey from working at Microsoft and General Motors to building Graflit—a platform designed to make unstructured data as usable as structured data.
News and Useful Reads
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As many companies attempt to utilize AI to replace workers, and as AI slop continues to take over social media, the backlash rightfully grows.
Right now, though a growing number of Americans use ChatGPT, many people are sick of AI’s encroachment into their lives and are ready to fight back.
Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’
And as much as companies would like to think that AI can take over work from employees, AI continues to prove that it isn’t anywhere near ready for real responsibility.
“If Anthropic were deciding today to expand into the in-office vending market, we would not hire Claudius,” Anthropic said of the experiment in its blog post.
Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
Given Meta’s focus on AI, it’s not surprising they are using public and non-public information to train its models. Anything for an edge.
For years, Meta trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. Now, it’s also hoping to access the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers.
Can Good UX Protect Older Users From Digital Scams?
Good design is always the answer in my opinion. From roads to applications, it makes all the difference. And good UX may need to be how we prevent people from getting scammed, especially in the age of AI.
As UX designers, we focus on making things easy, intuitive, and accessible. But we can also shape how people understand risk.
Other Interesting Finds
The Reason Why Our Best Ideas Come to Us in the Shower
If you need more of an excuse to take a shower, go for a walk, or take a drive, then remember that your best ideas often come when your mind can shift to autopilot. I like to remind myself (and others) to take breaks often. Sometimes you can’t power through a problem, but need to just let it sit in your subconscious for a while.
Research shows you’re more likely to have a creative epiphany when you’re doing something monotonous, like fishing, exercising, or showering. Since these routines don’t require much thought, you flip to autopilot. This frees up your unconscious to work on something else. Your mind goes wandering, leaving your brain to quietly play a no-holds-barred game of free association.
