Tag: Technology

Jeremy writing about Clearleft’s current conclusion around so-called “AI”:

There’s no way that we’d use this technology to generate outputs for clients, but we certainly might use it to generate inputs.

I think this sums up the way I’ve been feeling about it so far (though struggling to phrase it as succinctly).

Like most, I’ve played with ChatGPT, Midjourney and similar things, purely out of curiosity, and I’ve paid attention to the example outputs I’m seeing from others. For me, the output continues to fall into that camp of “pretty good for a piece of technology but definitely has a distinct ‘smell’ about it”.

It’s true that when you try to anticipate future harms, you won’t spot them all. But as the muscle gets stronger, your success rate improves and you develop better foresight senses. But even spotting some harms is preferable to not looking in the first place.

When we’re evaluating technologies for appropriateness, I hope that we will do so through the lens of what’s best for users, not what we feel compelled to use based on a gnawing sense of irrelevancy driven by the perceived popularity of newer technologies.

The Tarot Cards of Tech are a set of provocations designed to help creators more fully consider the impact of technology.

Some important questions here to answer before building any new piece of technology.