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It’s worse than that. These systems can be adapted by looking at failed user commands, but people don’t really sit around trying out fun things and watch it fall on its face for longer than the first day or so. After that, the novelty wears off, so you’ve trained your users to accept the device’s limitations. Then, even when you do improve the functionality, your users won’t know! They won’t try it, and those commands will never get traction in the system or get more testing beyond the initial launch criteria. It’s a death spiral. The same thing happens with the tone of voice people use.


> people don’t really sit around trying out fun things and watch it fall on its face for longer than the first day or so.

Isn't this what thumbs-up/down RL is for? To improve the quality of the results.


That’s the intention but very few users enjoy being unpaid QA for trillion dollar corps.




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