Algorithmic angst & the death ofhumanityEwan McGregor as Mark Renton from Trainspotting (Dir. by Danny Boyle,Miramax)Choose AI.Choose automation. Choose a fucking big neural network, algorithms, pipelines, machine learning models, and electrical tin openers that predict your every move. Choose high-speed internet, low-human effort, and zero accountability.Choose a chatbot that never shutsup.Choose synthetic voices and matching fake emotions. Choose research done by AI because talking to people takes too long.Choose infinite A/B tests with no real insights. Choose predictive analytics and wondering who the fuck you really are when the machine knows you better than you know yourself.Choose dark patterns, endless cookie banners, and onboarding flows stuffed with tooltips no one fuckingreads.Choose fixed subscription plans and endless notifications.Choose a design system built by a model and a future with no fucking designers.Choose sitting on that couch scrolling mind-numbing spirit-crushing bullshit created by an algorithm.Choose stuffing fucking clickbait into your brain until you cant think straight. Choose deepfakes, spam filters, and AI-generated influencers to replace yourself. Choose rotting away in virtual reality, pissing away your last shred of free will, nothing more than an optimized data point feeding the system. Choose yourfuture.Choose AI.But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose AI. I chose somethin else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when youve got a fucking bigdataset?If you didn't catch the reference, here's the opening of Trainspotting (1996), directed by DannyBoyle.https://medium.com/media/a4d6410f8bc034a9274366b0c3c73d58/hrefTechnological lust for AI was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.