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It’s time to retire the term “user” (archive.today)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Excuse me, "UXers" is not the preferred term any more. You should be using "HXers", as per the article.

In my opinion, replacing "users" with "humans" feels wrong in much the same way as when incels replace "women" with "females".

They are reducing the accuracy of the description. All users of computers can generally be assumed to be human. All humans cannot generally be assumed to also be users.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks 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”.