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Let's start by answering some questions that apparently the Design Council deems very important and profound:

'Can AI save the planet?'
No. AI is an advance statistic computational tool, while the environmental crisis is a socio-political problem that has less to do with stats and more to do with culture.

'Can ChatGPT solve the climate crisis?'
No. It's a chatbot and a BS generator, as @ct_bergstrom , @emilymbender @alex, @danmcquillan among others keep repeating

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And than there is THE question:

'Can Design save the planet?'
Well, no, the simple fact that #designers need to ask it to a chatbot is enough to prove that #design is a practice and a discipline with poor understanding of reality and a self-aggrandising idea of itself. In its current form, design is an industrial, capitalist, neoliberal practice that serves the brief commissioned by the 1%. And apparently, designers don't even understand the design of AI.

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Which is no surprise, considering that the most of #design process is creating useless and often malfunctioning products for people who are reduced to users, modelled on personas built upon biased assumptions of the design team.

Now, I know for sure there are some designers that are desperately trying to change this. But it looks like, we're very very far from even scratching the surface of it.

Gosh, today my inbox is an endless source of rants.

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