"AI helps with my disability"
AI *causes* disability. But that's in poor black kids, and fuck them, right?
this is not new information, you knew this already. don't pretend to ethical values.
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@davidgerard
I'm reading a lot of this sort of sentiment lately. I'm concerned that this is obscuring the greater truth: a small number of people are being allowed to run around destroying the environment and people's lives without consequences.
Yes, they are doing it with AI currently. It's true, at least in the English speaking world, if you are using AI you are contributing to all this. Yes, functionally, blaming AI is more or less true at this point. There will come a point soon enough where they will dump AI and switch to something else. The whole thing starts again.
I've read about some sustainable stuff with AI in China, not sure how prevalent it is, but it shows it can be done without destroying the environment. AI isn't the problem, just the current vehicle. The problem is the arseholes doing things the way they are doing them with no regard for anything except profit. The problem is that they get away with this with nothing but massive piles of money.
@davidgerard This is a tough one for me. I think it’s indisputable that AI harms people far more than it helps anyone, but using *some* forms of AI (likely more modest applications like ML classifiers, captioning, text-to-speech, and image- or video-to-text transformers) for accessibility falls within my “acceptable use” bucket.
The pollution and sickness inflicted by data centers are by a huge margin *not* coming from people using AI compute for accessibility. I wish there were a way to provide accessibility compute without also enabling the slop machine.
@drahardja it's the AI companies using them as cover, often extremely blatantly. e.g., this is one of Meta's covers for the pervert glasses.
@davidgerard I'm not going to make the claim without stronger evidence but I am extremely interested in whether or not studies are going to find that AI usage specifically worsens the symptoms of ADHD.
I see it promoted so often as an ADHD helper - "it just helps me get started on things."
I have my own instincts about the long term effects for ADHD critters in regards to executive dysfunction. It needs actual study, I'm just saying, I sure as hell am not using it.
I wouldn't accuse someone of hating poor, black kids for liking AI, but I would share that article with them, and demand they explain themselves.
@cy nah, they just have contempt for the idea it's an issue
the server space is being used by anthropic and gemini
I can understand your point, can you really understand theirs?
Many disabled people are isolated and don't get help due to the majority of the world being ableist.
Many of them keep asking for help and get ignored.
For some, using technology is the only help they get.
Maybe if the world wasn't so ableist they wouldn't need to use these tools.
There is no need to punch down.
Any benefit genAI provides to the disabled is only to provide a "legitimate" cover for the perpetration of evil. Yes, actual "evil". They are comic book villains.
@jrdepriest @davidgerard remember when electronic voting machines without a paper trail were necessary "to make sure voting is accessible" to those with disabilities?
Very popular play, find a real problem your tech is the most evil solution for, then pretend you've never seen or can't understand the criticism.
