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Jakob Nielsen is betting it all on gen AI (web.archive.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by fasterandworse@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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This is not so much about a particular post but rather to document Jakob Nielsen's relentless generative AI boosting.

His weekly updates are so saturated with AI subject matter and every image is AI generated they are unreadable and I can only assume the text is AI generated as well. It really doesn't matter if it isn't, in fact, because he's demonstrating in real-time how damaging the AI aesthetic is to a brand.

He also seems to be mentioning his 40 years of expertise a lot more, which might be a reaction to some negative feedback. I want to dig deeper, but I don't like the feeling that I'll have to read generated stuff carefully.

His latest newsletter triggered this post because he links to a terrible AI generated song he made (with the line "Jakob Nielsen with UX fame, forty-one years, still in the game") and spends most of the newsletter talking about the process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYt12jr5yUY

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

because it's funny

from https://web.archive.org/web/20240210054003/https://www.uxtigers.com/about/people his cv presented in an image without alt text

credit to Matt May for spotting this one https://mstdn.social/@mattmay/112037962750954987

p.s. read his great response to the last shitty Nielsen newsletter about AI generated accessibility: https://buttondown.email/practicaltips/archive/we-need-to-talk-about-jakob/

screenshot of nielsen list of achievements image from his website profile with red line under item: 2024 - named "titan of human factors" by HFES. Below the browser inpector is visible and the empty alt attribute on the img tag is circled in red

[–] m@blat.at 4 points 8 months ago

@fasterandworse Published a book about hypertext two years before the Web.. but two years after Hypercard.