Sadly i think unless there are studies that can quantify the impact there's no chance (and even then slim as often l/t)
Public sector the democratic argument (citizens should be able to navigate their state) may be stronger but Im not overly hopefull

Couldn't agree more, what's missing in most places is frequent checks if the "whole" of it still makes sense, fits together, is coherent.

All *good* designers and product ppl see this. The challenge in my experiene is how to sell that upwards. Money only for sparkles not housekeeping.

Evergreen.

How utterly surprising for a technology based on averages 🙃

Who needs clients or users anyway??
Throwing them under the bus in legal proceedings makes perfect business sense.

Wait , so if their argument was accepted, all their users would be commiting copyright infringment?
Including all their corporate clients?
Im genuinly confused how throwing your customers under the bus would be good for business. I must be misunderstanding something.

Its baffles how little comment there is - all other considerations aside - that everything points to fundamentally terrible design....if you must take courses how to use a product, the bizarre prompt-engineering culture, the ' research' on how an existing product will work...its probably not great.

I do have a bit of beef with the critical tech movement in that it largely operates as an academic research movement for advancement of phds to talk about surveillance and labor instead of as a practitioner-led movement to create alternative work pathways for tech workers to do things that dont suck