I don’t particularly use generative IAs that create Alt Text from images, but I’ve seen a lot of people who do use them and I think that’s the only use of AI from which I can’t draw anything negative.
The fact is that there are many people who do not know how to make a good Alt Text, and therefore either do not put them or put one that is only the word “photo/image”, which is much worse.
I think if AI had started there, as a tool to help accessibility, it wouldn’t have the stigma it has today.
But of course, there are not enough blind people in the world from whom to get absurdly, ridiculously, vulgarly obscene amounts of profit…
I’m glad Mary speaks for all disabled people and we can finally put this topic to rest.
Mary doesn’t get an opinion because it doesn’t represent 100% of people like her!
Nah you just don’t get to use Mary’s opinion as the final word on the matter.
Disabled people are not going to all agree on everything, especially when they are pretty diverse. Some will like gen ai, and some will not.
It depends on what the disability is if it could help or not.
I think that in this context it does not apply because the person in the image is talking about people who use accessibility as an excuse to keep asking ChatGPT to do their homework, and I in particular refer to the legitimate use of AI solely and exclusively to facilitate accessibility. I could give as an example the Bots on Mastodon that, if you follow them, when you upload an image without Alt Text, they respond to the Toot with a detailed description of the image.
Where is the context about using AI to do their homework?
Not the OP so their point of view might differ.
I’ve only seen LLM and ADHD connected via writing / homework tasks. Perhaps that’s the same link OP thought of.
And the txt in the image is anyway just an aggressive individual opinion. I don’t get the logic of “I don’t want or use this so no one is allowed to see it as beneficial”.
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Yeah, and all it requires is for poorly paid workers in Kenya to be tortured and forced to watch CSAM all day.
That’s a perfect example of what I always say, you’re not mad a GenAI as a technology, you’re mad at Capitalism.
The problem is capitalism, but the technology was produced under capitalism and you’re using this technology under capitalism. So, a distinction without a difference.
Every technology we use in the modern day was produced under capitalism
And you can’t separate the technology from it’s historical and material context. We could say “capitalist LLMs” instead of just “LLMs” every time we talk about the technology, but is that useful?
Ok, so photography is as bad in your eyes as LLMs I take it?
First you say “you’re not mad a GenAI as a technology, you’re mad at Capitalism” and then when I agree with you you move the goal posts to argue against it? Are you just arguing for its own sake?
It’s like I never left Reddit!
Talking to you was a mistake. You’re just trying to “win” the conversation, you don’t actually care about anything I have to say.
I’m done. You can have the last word.