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“Often very confidently wrong” • theverge.com

Pithy summary of the state of chat #AI by Grant Tremblay, astrophysicist who fact-checked Google's Bard public demo.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/8/23590864/google-ai-chatbot-bard-mistake-error-exoplanet-demo

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Accessible Target Sizes • craftcms.com

This article on accessibility in touch & click targets reminds us everybody is disabled at some point. Accessible design is not just about “the blind” or “people with a disability”:

“Typically, we hear about target sizes being important for users on touch devices as it’s important to increase the tappable area of many UI controls. However, increasing target size also benefits:

• Users with hand tremors

• Users with decreased dexterity or fine motor control

• Users who are in an environment that can increase hand shaking, such as a bumpy ride on public transportation

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YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, Mozilla study finds • theverge.com

“Even when users tell YouTube they aren’t interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found.

“Using video recommendations data from more than 20,000 YouTube users, Mozilla researchers found that buttons like ‘not interested,’ ‘dislike,’ ‘stop recommending channel,’ and ‘remove from watch history’ are largely ineffective at preventing similar content from being recommended.“

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