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It’s time to retire the term “user” (archive.today)
submitted 2 years ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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because we shouldn't be humanizing AI while depersonalizing the actual people who use stuff, according to MIT Technology Review.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 2 years ago

Firstly the article doesn’t advocate for using “humans” instead; in fact, it devotes half of the two sentences for the term to guess why that term would be off-putting. The article includes suggestions of “people” and “interactors”. Secondly I posted this solely because I found its arguments interesting. I’m neutral on the term, same as “master”.