"If you’re not staring into people’s eyes and in the agency of strangers for the majority of your day, you’re going to end up lonely and depressed.”
6/6 End of Thread

"(…)[Advice to young people] Nothing ever that wonderful is going to happen to you on a screen. The home, remote work, and faux relationships online, they’re not a feature, they’re a bug." 5/6

"In my opinion this is the Biggest threat to society right now is loneliness, fueled by a profit incentive of sequestering you from the rest of society so you spend even more time alone in your basement staring at a screen in an algorithm (girlfriend.ai, character.ai).
4/6

"you don’t need friends, just go on reddit or discord, you don’t need a job, you trade stocks and crypto; why go through the effort of having a plan, getting in shape, go through humiliation, trying to demonstrate excellence, getting out such that you have a romantic partner when you have porn?" 3/6

"And I think the biggest threat of AI is something we don’t talk about a lot. And I would argue that it’s manifested in current events. And that is, it gives individuals, especially young men, some sense that they can have a facsimile of life in digital platforms:" 2/6

oh my god, yes. I just wrote about this over on my side (but instead of aiming it at Open AI, I aimed at other companies... and their "AI-Infused" tools... I'm sorry, is AI a new herbal tea?)

Bonus 2/2: And that's why I don't actually get happy you have embedded AI, yay! Honestly, if you do that and stop caring about the product performance as a whole, then were you even being an adequate PM?

Bonus 1/2: Judging by how a lot of people use AI, I can't trust that all products are using my data wisely, or that you're not further training AI models with my questions, my queries, or my business processes. I don't know it, because you don't announce it adequately.

As soon as I see that these things are being leveraged without any second-thought into whether it is or not needed, I just feel disconnected to the product. And that’s where I think PMs are failing sometimes.

Love,
An internal PM that also needs to infuse AI - but does so only on what needs it! 6/6

Judging by how your marketing is affecting the messaging and you “scream” the equivalent that you're in the AI bandwagon through banners and e-mails, you just scream that you’re trying out trends before trusting something. 5/6

I don’t care that you know have AI insights: I care that they are insights I can trust, not hyper-personalized to the point of feeling surveilled.
I don’t care that you have AI-infused things like we’re talking about herbal teas: I care that as user of a tool, you empathized with me. 4/6

Here’s my Anti-User Stories:
[As a future former user of your tool] I don’t care if your product has AI Chatbot what I care is that I have a problem that needs to be solved.

3/6

I didn’t buy a newspaper with a lightbulb contraption: I put a light on my reading area.

Treat AI-embedded things the same.
2/6

Any time I need to create a poll for my team, I try really hard to avoid asking them to type things themselves (I opt for choice, if possible), because I can know who's typing it from the mistakes they write, or the length of the sentences.

Is that how you were called to analyze the data yourself?

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