@tante Thank you tante! 🙏
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@aral Thank you Aral! Sorry I was just too late seeing this. Got a few proofreaders and I just published and sent it... 😊
https://axbom.com/nielsen-generative-ui-failure/
Okay, here is my take on Nielsen's latest post.
"Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen. And had it not been written by someone a great many people take seriously in the UX industry I likely would just have dismissed it. But seeing how harmful I consider the post to potentially be, I would like to nip this in the bud. My reflection is that the published post is misleading, self-contradictory and underhanded. I'll walk you through the whole of it and provide my commentary and reasoning. 👇
https://axbom.com/nielsen-generative-ui-failure/
#accessibility #a11y #ux
If you appreciated my walkthrough of "generative UI" by Jakob Nielsen, you may also want to read about his fixation on IQ:
https://axbom.com/jakob-nielsen-quotes-about-iq/
@fasterandworse Haha, I'll wait at least an hour as I always do when I've been especially angry while writing.
Reading Jakob Nielsen is not good for my blood pressure. But someone sent me this absurd content, it needs a response and I feel compelled to write. That's the rest of the day sorted.
No I won't even link to his post.
#a11y #accessibility
If anyone in the #accessibility space (or #ux in general) would be interested in reading my draft post commenting on Jakob Nielsen's "generative UI" to resolve accessibility,I'd be happy to send a link in DM. I need a confidence boost before publishing, I guess...
@mrundkvist Excellent point.
Remember, 'hallucination' describes how generative AI works all the time. It's not a description of a deviation. Generative AI has no correctness gauge.
People used to roll their eyes at individuals on the street carrying signs saying ”The end is near”.
Now when the billionaires are carrying those same signs, people just want to throw more money at them.
The gravitational pull of wealth attracting more wealth is so very strong.
Anyway, was just reading about Zuck’s new bunker on Hawaii.
@Mer__edith @camillefrancois
This conversation is just amazing. So clear, obvious, and with quotable nuggets every two minutes. The clarity with which you express yourselves is inspirational and encouraging.
”Dig where you stand”. Thank you.
Screaming into the void was surprisingly helpful...
Type your shit, press the button, watch it disappear into the void.
https://screamintothevoid.com
@cybeardjm This all makes me so sad. Somebody sent me that job tip and for a moment I was excited about the idea of working on something human rights-related and then looking closer it's just very off-putting.
@cybeardjm
Right!
The reason I'm asking is because they have recently announced a consultancy position and one of the assignments is to:
"Provide focused design support to the ongoing pilot in Burundi for the development of solution to improve blockchain-based financial inclusion tool. "
This could of course be unrelated to the other crypto project.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3826405453/
If anyone has any further info on how UNICEF is adopting cryptocurrency, and specifically the broader implications for the communities they are addressing with the CryptoFund, I am very curious.
https://cryptofund.unicef.io/home
@m Haha, love it! 😁
@carl_klitscher I mean, this must be one of those down periods where it's recommended to invest heavily. 🤪
How are everyone's NFTs faring? 🙃
Wow I've had 2 hours without spam... could this be the light at the end of the tunnel?
Giving a shoutout to UX Copenhagen, taking place on March 20-21.
I spoke at this amazing conference in March of 2020. Conference curator extraordinaire Helle Martens was able to move the entire event online, amidst reports of a quickly spreading virus, and still deliver a stellar experience for speakers and attendees.
I’ll myself be attending online this year for the 10th(!) installment of UX Copenhagen. The theme for 2024 is “Degrowth and Consumerism”:
> "For far too long, we have been living in a world that applauds and encourages continuous growth, expansion, selling, and manipulation. It’s a world of over production and over consumption, but we’re running out of resources. Business as usual will not cut it anymore."
There are tickets for on-site, live-stream and groups, There are still tickets available and I’d urge you to to check out the speaker lineup and workshop topics. If you want to contribute to universal wellbeing, this is a good place to find your energy.
I’m myself very much looking forward to Dr. Videha Sharma’s talk on how to consume less and live more.
https://uxcopenhagen.com/
Agent Smith: A Single Image Can Jailbreak One Million Multimodal LLM Agents Exponentially Fast
“ 1. Background. A multimodal large language model (MLLM) agent can receive instructions, capture images, retrieve histories from memory, and decide which tools to use. Nonetheless, red-teaming efforts have revealed that adversarial images/prompts can jailbreak an MLLM and cause unaligned behaviors.
2. New Concept. In this work, we report an even more severe safety issue in multi-agent environments, referred to as infectious jailbreak. It entails the adversary simply jailbreaking a single agent, and without any further intervention from the adversary, (almost) all agents will become infected exponentially fast and exhibit harmful behaviors.”
https://sail-sg.github.io/Agent-Smith/
@enron Thank you! This has been my reasoning as well, but it’s nice to hear the same thinking from others. 🙏