Data entry must die.

Data entry is the dominant UI paradigm for all digital interfaces.

Starting in the 1970s, data entry emerged as a new role in the transition from paper to digital in the countries that started to adopt such technology.

Data entry roles started to populate the modern office, people who’s sole job was to look at figures on paper and type them into green-on-black screens.

But we haven’t done much better for all of our interfaces.

Even today, we enter data into every screen-based interface we encounter.

Wanting to plan a vacation? Type some data into little boxes on an airline’s website to tell them where you’re doing, when you’re doing, and sometimes, why you’re going.

This feed-the-machine mentality is exactly what drives the radical consumption of our creativity to feed generative artificial intelligence, an ongoing act particular powered by social media platforms, for the benefit of the companies who managed to do so, dismissing any responsible notion of copyright, copyleft, and attribution we have cultivated as global intellectual society for centuries.