Prompting Considered Harmful
Briefly

The shift from prompt-based interaction to more intuitive interfaces is essential for enhancing the user experience and accessibility of AI systems, benefiting both casual users and experts.
As prompting has become the primary mode of interacting with AI technologies, it raises significant concerns regarding efficacy and safety, underlining the need for alternative user interfaces.
Prompt-based interfaces can confuse users and compromise the foundation of generative AI applications, which ought to rely on more effective communication than simply textual inputs.
Natural language interaction should involve genuine conversational dynamics, which prompting fails to capture fully, revealing the inherent limitations of current AI user interfaces.
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