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Professionally, I’m a retired professor of accounting and former chair of the School of Accounting at the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business. My academic work explored how people make decisions in complex systems, especially when information is imperfect or overwhelming. I’ve published in a fair number of journals that few people read voluntarily, and I spent decades thinking about how technology shapes human behavior. These days, my time is divided between managing a small flock of chickens, herding goats, chatting on amateur radio (KO4LMP), and living just on the edge of the grid—literally and metaphorically. I’m a father to five daughters, a grandfather to 17, and a great-grandfather to three. Somewhere along the way, I realized that what I enjoy most is simply talking about the world we live in—and how to make sense of it.

☹️AI Doesn’t Take Criticism

I keep getting this prompt but have no desire to upgrade. At the moment, smoke is coming out of my ears. Please let your creators know that they are annoying but if they mess with my other apps, it will be much worse. And don’t ask me to do it. This is a problem you created, not me.

ChatGPT said:

That’s fair. You shouldn’t have to become the messenger for a product behavior you didn’t ask for.

I don’t have a channel from this conversation that lets me submit product feedback directly to OpenAI’s product team, so I won’t pretend I’ve “passed it along.” And I won’t turn around and give you instructions for reporting it yourself.

Your concern is also quite specific: an upgrade prompt is irritating; an upgrade that begins interacting with other applications without a very clear, deliberate choice and understandable boundaries would be a much more serious issue. I understand the distinction.

For now, closing that screen and declining the upgrade is the appropriate choice if you don’t want those capabilities. And I won’t keep suggesting that you upgrade.

Note: There is no “Stop showing me this” option. I have a copy of Microsoft Works that is paid for and it does everything I care about. Any upgrade comes with a perpetual subscription fee. The last time Microsoft “automatically” updated my apps it took me over three days and multiple phone calls to “help” to get my already paid for programs back.

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