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Everytime I see people naysaying #AI, a question comes up that I'd be curious to get people's takes on.

An #accessibility issue is blocking a person from using a tool, a website, a professional app that they need to make money and not die of starvation, take your pick.

Figuring this person is dealing with other humans, they report the problem to the tool's developer, hoping they can fix it and not exclude a bunch of people. Developer either does nothing, puts it at the bottom of the backlog, or indicates the developer doesn't have the skills or resources to fix the issue. This is common enough to be the expected default response for these kinds of reports, particularly these days.

This person likes the environment, likes not using tools made by dickheads, and likes paying for services rendered if those services are useful to them. So they would really rather not use AI, which goes against all those maxims.

Florian

@zersiax@cupoftea.social replied · 2 days ago

However, the person in question also rather likes not being dependent on somebody else's timeline, on others in general, and they are also rather attached to the house they live in, and the ability to keep eating, drinking and breathing.

Then, they learn that, through using AI, they could generate/vibe-code/pick your poison, a fix for the issue that prevents them from being fired/evicted/kicked out of college, again, take your pick.

They feel doing so is unethical, steals people's work, contributes to a larger global issue, but they also feel that they've tried everything else and people just aren't willing to clean up the mess they've left this person in by not taking responsibility for the issue and fixing it.

What is this person to do?

alcinnz

@alcinnz@floss.social replied · 2 days ago

Florian

@zersiax@cupoftea.social replied · 2 days ago

alcinnz

@alcinnz@floss.social replied · 2 days ago

Florian

@zersiax@cupoftea.social replied · 2 days ago

alcinnz

@alcinnz@floss.social replied · 2 days ago

Florian

@zersiax@cupoftea.social replied · 2 days ago

I'm not asking to be a dick, or to troll, I am genuinely interested in what people feel is an acceptable way out of this conundrum.
And I'm asking, because it IS, unfortunately, the reality for a huge amount of people right now. Some people have waited months, years, even decades, to get equal access to certain types of resources, applications, services, entertainment, the works. They have asked, they have begged, they have raged and they have gone up and down every single chain of command they can think of in order to be acknowledged, only to be ignored, dismissed or deprioritized at every turn. Because people, haven't, cared. They were not the primary cash cow, they were not the easy path, therefore they were ok to ignore.
So again, the question. People who rather wouldn't use AI but are systematically considered dismissible by the people who should know better, ... what exactly are they meant to be doing right now?

Eric Eggert

@yatil@yatil.social replied · 2 days ago

@zersiax If "AI" solves a specific problem and removes a systematic barrier, then that is totally a valid use and is not something that is in any way problematic. Because the person knows what tool was used and where the pitfalls are.

The problematic aspect is when society determines that "AI" generated solutions are sufficient enough, do not make it transparent to users that the solutions might have errors, and say "check, look how inclusive we are".

Florian

@zersiax@cupoftea.social replied · 2 days ago

@yatil 😊 Yep the inverse of this conversation is people who are NOT running into #accessibility issues using #AI as a way to shut up those who do and shelf it under reasonable accomodation/inclusivity without having to put in actual effort, but that's a whole entire different conversation that often comes up when AI is used to, say, generate a bunch of alt text without context leading to silliness like the various "misunderstood" food item descriptions at GrubHub, for example

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