Liquid Glass’ blurred content everywhere is especially cruel to those of us who use reading glasses or progressives.
The reflex to seeing blurry text on our phones is to adjust our sight angle or distance to sharpen it. But, of course, it’s not our fault, doesn’t sharpen, and just causes eyestrain.
Text on my phone should never be blurry.
They're all rich enough to have had their eyes replaced with the eyes of youths from a developing country.
@outadoc correct, a quick search led me to this well sourced article that indicates that chatgpt took north american numbers and made it sound like they are true for every continent – which they don’t seem to be.
https://www.contactlenses.co.uk/education/presbyopia-stats
doesn’t invalidate marco’s broader point, but of course the information is incorrect. because it fucking always is. (not true, it‘s just 50 % of the time when it comes to correctly regurgitating news. that’s fine, right? https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/bbc-research-shows-issues-with-answers-from-artificial-intelligence-assistants)
I hit 42 and my eyes stopped focusing.
@siracusa @marcoarment
I interpret Figure 3 of this study to show presbyopia to peak at about 72% in a given age group, with about 50% of 40-45 year olds affected.
After reading some Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic articles, I understand why ChatGPT thinks 100% of 65 year olds are affected: those sources site 65 as the age when all your presbyopia has happened to you.
Caveat: I don’t actually know what this line from the sites study means: “It is important to stress that this describes the number of people who would be vision impaired at near without adequate optical correction, not simply those who can not accommodate from distance to near. The latter essentially would be everyone from approximately 55 years of age onward.”
https://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(17)33797-1/fulltext
@siracusa the notification summarization from Apple Intelligence is uh... less good than leading edge models. (and should not be a baseline for your expectations.)
I apologize for going on and on, but also, those aren’t summaries, they’re website snippets.
@siracusa I mean, yea, I checked before telling you they’re snippets. But one doesn’t need to do that each time.
You wouldn't re-read the terms and conditions every time you open an app
@siracusa but why does it end there? You’re deciding whether to believe the Google snippet is really on the NIH website. Why do you think it's accurate just because it’s published on the NIH website, you haven’t looked at the spreadsheet they loaded the results. Maybe they made a math mistake. And that’s only one study. You really want a literature review or meta analysis.
No such analysis exists, but a search results screenshot can fit a bunch of snippets from multiple sources all next to each other.
Maybe screenshot of a bunch of snippets is as good as it gets for an answer to this question in the short form post format. And an LLM summary of the literature might be nearly as good
(I’m so sorry to be pedantic, but I actually didn’t realize this was my opinion going in. I appreciate the chance to figure this out through discussion)
Yep. I've gone through and checked ChatGPT's sources and it is frequently wrong about what the source says. When I "confront" ChatGPT about the mistake, it says: "You're absolutely right; that source doesn't say blah blah blah."
Unless there are mountains of well-established research on a topic, you can't trust any LLM, even if it gives you sources. And if such mountains of research do exist, you're still better off going to a trusted website run by experts.
@marcoarment The text on my S25 Ultra is perfectly clear. Trade in value for my 16PM was great too.
Edit: I wear varifocals (progressives in Trumpistanish?) and can't see a damned thing without them.
@marcoarment xScope's tools have a setting to simulate this for 20-something designers.
I suspect it's never been used.
@chockenberry @marcoarment I'm pretty sure no one at Apple uses it. Reading the station platform or exit number in Apple Maps is impossible with more than +1, and accessibility settings do not make this thing larger.
I believe that like making architects spend a day on a wheelchair, a day with sight-ruining glasses should be required for anyone who calls themselves a "UI/UX designer".
@marcoarment chatgpt is not a source
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