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AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices (www.scientificamerican.com)

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After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (11 children)

We have been trained to hoard apps and files, while tech companies have failed to provide any intuitive or easy way to organize them. And their solution isn’t to make things more organized or usable. No, our technological overlords have decided that disorganized chaos is fine as long as they can provide an automated search product to sift through the mess.

Ugh. Who's the teen writing for Scientific American?

This same complaint was made back in the oughts about search. "Everyone should just categorize and properly tag documents!"

Turns out users hate that.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've actually tried to do that with pictures/art, but none of the tools I have to do so make it easy. The Windows photo viewer from Windows XP, which I can't seem to get anymore, was actually pretty okay at it.

But the truth is that even then it required more effort than I was willing to put in, and I was never able to anticipate every tag I would eventually want. If I didn't feel like tagging something the moment I saved it, it generally never got tagged.

At this point an AI to do it would be amazing. I have thousands and thousands of pieces of potential character art, but when I want something with specific features it's not easy to find.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You should still be able to use the photo viewer:

https://winaero.com/how-to-enable-windows-photo-viewer-in-windows-11/amp/

(Unless I misunderstood and there was a photo organization tool in XP that I forgot about)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one that can still be enabled is still not the original version that had the tools I'm thinking of; I've tried several guides to re-enable it and it does give me an older photo viewer, but never quite the one I had back in XP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Windows is fairly good at running old EXEs. Trying spinning up an XP vm and just yanking the old photo viewer.

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