Someone used Midjourney to AI-generate images of politicians cheating on their spouses — though claims that it was well-intentioned.

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    1 year ago

    You may be right in some ways, but if encourage you (or anyone) to not use theoretical disabled people as counterpoints. Ideally, cite something someone has said instead.

    I understand the impulse, but doing so often makes people sound more disabled today andputs words in the communities’ mouth.

    There are paraplegics writing and creating art today. There is a great list of needs they have from society which precedes ai assistance.

    More nefarious people (not saying you, to be clear) also do this to veil shitty tech or policies. “Think of the disabled, with targeted advertisements based on personal data we’ll make using the web less burdensome”

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      I think your point is kind of silly. There are lots of people that can do lots of things but still people that can’t. I am also disabled. But I realized there are other people who cannot do what I can do that are also disabled. I think it’s pretty clear I was speaking of them. I’m not sure why they are suddenly unimportant in terms of a discussion. When speaking of a discussion, the most incredible breakthroughs are the ones that should be touted, imo. And also in my opinion, the ability to create where you couldn’t before, the ability to express your imagination that has been locked inside your head, is the greatest gift AI will give.

      Maybe you don’t feel the same way. That’s fine but don’t discount people with disabilities who cannot write or create right now.

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        To be clear I’m not saying there’s no value to such improvements, but specifically want people to exercise caution in the realm of the hypothetical.

        Rather, we should lift up actual evidence and voices of the people affected. If such disabled people are hard to find, that’s a good reason to reframe. Sometimes the actual needs are much less hypothetical. Sometimes the hypothetical greatly overestimated the tech.

        To root this discussion, maybe linking to paraplegic speaking on creative AI tools? Or similar examples of AI being used for a11y today which indicates this trend is realistic and a priority.

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          Such people are not hard to find it’s just that this discussion is never centered around them. Why? Because this was out of the realm of possibility. This was just not on the radar for people.