I see a lot of #Blind people ‘apologizing’ for using #AI – I am not going to be doing that. Not now and not ever.
We need to have a conversation about how these models have been trained and how they are used going forward, but shaming disabled people for taking any chance they can to mitigate some of the challenges they face in their lives every day, is a ‘privilege’ we don’t all enjoy.
When you post an image and choose not to add alt text, publish an inaccessible PDF, release an inaccessible app - these are all choices! Maybe a tiny part of the righteous outrage that some of these people are spewing could be aimed at that?
@Lottie@liamerven I don't much care what they say. Most of the tech crowd were full of jokes, and contempt for the pain of others, as they happily automated away their jobs and disrupted every industry they could. Only now, when it comes for them, do they suddenly find a righteous moral argument, but it's all self-serving crap. AI has improved my life as a blind man. Sorry it's hurt there's. Guess "learn to code" doesn't work anymore. Time marches on.
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