“Human-in-the-loop” may become the most abused phrase of the next decade
VraserX · x · 2026-08-19
The post argues that the term “human-in-the-loop” is set to become heavily abused in the coming decade. It points out the ambiguity of the phrase: sometimes it implies meaningful oversight, but other times it merely means one human signing off on decisions already made by 10,000 machines.
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