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Accessibility is the only moral use that Generative AI can have nowadays (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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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...

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

(edit: I kind of regret posting this image for reasons described below, but I'll leave it up for context.)

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm glad Mary speaks for all disabled people and we can finally put this topic to rest.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mary doesn't get an opinion because it doesn't represent 100% of people like her!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nah you just don't get to use Mary's opinion as the final word on the matter.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Mary speaks for herself and we are acknowledging her personal opinion.

    In my case (ADHD) I agree with Mary, I certainly don't need inaccurate AI summaries shoved down my throat while being told it is a great thing for making things accessible for people like me.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Where is the context about using AI to do their homework?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    That's a perfect example of what I always say, you're not mad a GenAI as a technology, you're mad at Capitalism.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Every technology we use in the modern day was produced under capitalism

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ok, so photography is as bad in your eyes as LLMs I take it?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    I wasn't trying to win anything. You argued that all technology under capitalism is unethical. So since clearly we can conceive some things as worse than others, I was trying to distill where the difference lies according to you.

    But it's rich that you claim I don't care about anything you had to say when you butted in unprompted to grandstand. Looks like reddit was inside you all along

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