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 I am not blind but the inaccessible PDFs issue is such a pain for me. I use a screen reader for most books and being into stem means lots of equations that are un-pronounceable and figures that are only vaguely alluded to but not labelled. Don't get me started on tables that only make sense visually and lead to my reader listing random numbers for multiple minutes 💀
