{"ID":2844819,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05025","arxiv_id":"2511.05025","title":"8bit-GPT: Exploring Human-AI Interaction on Obsolete Macintosh Operating Systems","abstract":"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.","short_abstract":"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 attachm...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05025","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.05025v1","authors":"[\"Hala Sheta\"]","published":"2025-11-07T06:56:04Z","proceeding":"cs.HC","tasks":"[\"cs.HC\",\"cs.AI\"]","methods":"[\"Language Model\"]","has_code":false}