8bit-GPT: Exploring Human-AI Interaction on Obsolete Macintosh Operating Systems
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| author | Sheta, Hala |
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| contents | The proliferation of assistive chatbots offering efficient, personalized communication has driven widespread over-reliance on them for decision-making, information-seeking and everyday tasks. This dependence was found to have adverse consequences on information retention as well as lead to superficial emotional attachment. As such, this work introduces 8bit-GPT; a language model simulated on a legacy Macintosh Operating System, to evoke reflection on the nature of Human-AI interaction and the consequences of anthropomorphic rhetoric. Drawing on reflective design principles such as slow-technology and counterfunctionality, this work aims to foreground the presence of chatbots as a tool by defamiliarizing the interface and prioritizing inefficient interaction, creating a friction between the familiar and not. |
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| spellingShingle | 8bit-GPT: Exploring Human-AI Interaction on Obsolete Macintosh Operating Systems Sheta, Hala Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence The proliferation of assistive chatbots offering efficient, personalized communication has driven widespread over-reliance on them for decision-making, information-seeking and everyday tasks. This dependence was found to have adverse consequences on information retention as well as lead to superficial emotional attachment. As such, this work introduces 8bit-GPT; a language model simulated on a legacy Macintosh Operating System, to evoke reflection on the nature of Human-AI interaction and the consequences of anthropomorphic rhetoric. Drawing on reflective design principles such as slow-technology and counterfunctionality, this work aims to foreground the presence of chatbots as a tool by defamiliarizing the interface and prioritizing inefficient interaction, creating a friction between the familiar and not. |
| title | 8bit-GPT: Exploring Human-AI Interaction on Obsolete Macintosh Operating Systems |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05025 |