🧵Let’s rethink how we design studies with participants as active interpreters, not just data points.

“Translating Emotions to Annotations,” explores the participant's perspective.

We found:
-Signal data and self-reports ≠ data,
-Participants aren’t passive sensors, they co-interpret signals
#cscw

Anthropic just dropped - "Tracing the thoughts of a large language model" - www.anthropic.com/news/tracing... - highly relevant for understanding LLM behind the scenes.

In the evolving world of AI it has became kind of mandatory to keep "AI in loop" to catchup with train of advancement, but it is crucial that in midst of it we don't loose what makes us human! Coz "human in loop" means dependence while "AI in loop" is agency.

ChatGPT has become the ear that listens when no one else does. But seeing this made me realize how deeply people rely on AI for emotional validation—it’s alarming. It’s time we focus on building emotional literacy and openness, so people turn to each other, not machines.

openai.com/index/affect...