Ratatouille (is also about AI)

Wait. Isn’t this the movie about the rat chef? How can this film be legitimate fodder for a blog about sci-fi interfaces? True, the film is certainly not sci-fi by genre. But it is about over-reliance on an intelligent assistant, and that’s of serious interest to designers, technologists, and anyone paying attention to where AI is taking us. So we’re going to step outside of genre for a bit. It’s worth it. What Is Overreliance? Simply put, overreliance is what it sounds like. Relying on AI output too much. (The sweet spot is appropriate reliance.) This quickly becomes a problem because: AI makes mistakes (and they spread). LLMs can confidently hallucinate. Accept the output uncritically, and you push those errors downstream where they become bigger and more expensive to catch. You lose your skills (making you more dependent). Over time, you become deskilled. If the AI is unavailable, you panic because you now depend on it. This also makes you worse at skeptically reviewing the AI’s…