8bit-GPT: Exploring Human-AI Interaction on Obsolete Macintosh Operating Systems

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• Title: 8bit-GPT: Exploring Human-AI Interaction on Obsolete Macintosh Operating Systems
• ArXiv ID: 2511.05025
• Date: 2025-11-07
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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.

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