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Yeah, I think accessibility is one of the few potentially actually valuable use cases for generative AI.
If you can generate alt text completely locally in a private open source way that’d be pretty cool. It’d be nice if it funtioned as a extension that only does anything when you intentionally call it, at least by default. Maybe mapped to a keyboard shortcut, but I don’t know enough about what visually impaired users need to have a meaningful perspective on how the user experience should be implemented.
But I’ve yet to see any companies talk about how that’s what they’re gonna use AI for. To me, AI has hypothetical usefulness specifically for tasks that are really important but that in practice no one actually puts resources into, or has any resource to put into.
I also kinda wonder if local-only AI moderation tools could also make it a lot easier for fediverse mods to cover a lot of ground, or could abstract really disturbing content to reduce the mental load of moderating out the worst content folks post on the internet.
But no one is interested in AI tech so they can build useful things, theyre interested in it because they can steal peoples intellectual labor and build products without having to pay the people who would produce that intellectual labor.
Yeah, I think accessibility is one of the few potentially actually valuable use cases for generative AI.
If you can generate alt text completely locally in a private open source way that’d be pretty cool. It’d be nice if it funtioned as a extension that only does anything when you intentionally call it, at least by default. Maybe mapped to a keyboard shortcut, but I don’t know enough about what visually impaired users need to have a meaningful perspective on how the user experience should be implemented.
But I’ve yet to see any companies talk about how that’s what they’re gonna use AI for. To me, AI has hypothetical usefulness specifically for tasks that are really important but that in practice no one actually puts resources into, or has any resource to put into.
I also kinda wonder if local-only AI moderation tools could also make it a lot easier for fediverse mods to cover a lot of ground, or could abstract really disturbing content to reduce the mental load of moderating out the worst content folks post on the internet.
But no one is interested in AI tech so they can build useful things, theyre interested in it because they can steal peoples intellectual labor and build products without having to pay the people who would produce that intellectual labor.