It’s funny how every podcaster/public ai figure is so certain text as a Ui will go away and it’s not going anywhere.

devalexwells 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

A few days ago I was trying to unsubscribe to a service (notably an AI 3D modeling tool that I was curious about).

I spent 5 minutes trying to find a way to unsubscribe and couldn't. Finally, I found it buried in the plan page as one of those low-contrast ellipses on the plan card.

Instead of unsubscribing me or taking me to a form, it opened a convos with an AI chatbot with a preconfigured "unsubscribe" prompt. I have never felt more angry with a UI that I had to waste more time talking to a robot before it would render the unsubscribe button in the chat.

Why would we bring the most hated feature of automated phone calls to apps? As a frontend engineer I am horrified by these trends.

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tim333 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's probably increased during my lifetime. People used to talk, now they sit and text into smartphones.

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gessha 2 days ago | parent [-]

There might be some confusion about the transition to what some call post-literate era: era where text is not the primary medium. That’s not necessarily bad because you get the advantages of other mediums - oral and visual but it is something to keep in mind.

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tim333 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm bit skeptical that a post-literate era is happening. I gather it appears in some sci-fi but I don't see much sign in reality. I mean here we are on a text only site. If anything we seem to be heading for a 100% literate society. Literacy graphs here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cross-country-literacy-ra...

	▲	gessha 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t think the post-illiterate era means that text will disappear. I think it’s just not going to be dominant anymore but I also have my reservations since I do prefer the text medium.