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Jakob Nielsen is betting it all on gen AI (web.archive.org)
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This is not so much about a particular post but rather to document Jakob Nielsen's relentless generative AI boosting.

His weekly updates are so saturated with AI subject matter and every image is AI generated they are unreadable and I can only assume the text is AI generated as well. It really doesn't matter if it isn't, in fact, because he's demonstrating in real-time how damaging the AI aesthetic is to a brand.

He also seems to be mentioning his 40 years of expertise a lot more, which might be a reaction to some negative feedback. I want to dig deeper, but I don't like the feeling that I'll have to read generated stuff carefully.

His latest newsletter triggered this post because he links to a terrible AI generated song he made (with the line "Jakob Nielsen with UX fame, forty-one years, still in the game") and spends most of the newsletter talking about the process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYt12jr5yUY

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This week AI will make software accessible for everyone because “traditional methods” failed but let’s not spend 5 minutes thinking about why that is.

Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX JAKOB NIELSEN 29 FEB 2024 Summary: Traditional methods for accessibility have been tried for 30 years without substantially improving computer usability for disabled users. It’s time for a change, and AI will soon come to the rescue with the ability to generate a different user interface for every user, optimized for that person’s unique needs.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Good response https://axbom.com/nielsen-generative-ui-failure/

Still very much in the UXniverse but nice to see pushback