My own nonexpert opinion is that chatGPT should be viewed as a UX nuclear weapon. In a very real sense, chatGPT doesn't *do* anything but input and output meaningless piles of words, but the vibes are absolutely exquisite. It feels like how computers should work.
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RT @polotek
The "I don't want to interact with other people" thing has been building in our society for a while now. It's a deep topic, and I won't do it justice.
I do think …
https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1648078843738193920
You go up to chatGPT, and ask it to do work you want done in a normal regular way, and it responds immediately with something that looks like what you wanted done. It's snappy, it's direct, and it's SIMPLE. If you're not too discriminating, it feels like it JUST WORKS.
It's all an illusion, of course, but it's a good one, and it's giving people what they want, which is a simple and direct way to make a computer do stuff. We want this to be true so bad it's dangerous. People will get hurt because the vibes are too good.