While I really enjoy seeing many of my fellow man being accommodating to people with disabilities. I find manually transcribing every image I post to be very tiring.

I thought that I could at least use some sort of AI to help with image transcripts, tho, that could probably be better used by the actual person with the disability.

So thats the question, should I skip the transcribing of an image or let an AI do it?

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I read this disgraceful comment yesterday, and I've dug through my history to reply to it today.

@rako, this unacceptable. Let's remove the mention of AI to see if you can get some perspective... Imagine this exchange:

P1: I've been cooking for the homeless but it's taking up a lot of my time and energy. Is it ok to use shop-bought meals?

P2: You being weary of cooking is belittling the homeless! People like you are what's wrong with society.

I hope you can agree that this is unfair, and unhinged. It's also not mischaracterising what you wrote.

@Gonzako you don't seem to have minded rako trying to shame you, but they were way out of line.

[–] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 0 points 8 hours ago

I'm sorry but you are just showing you don't know what AI is about. AI isn't a shop-bought meal. It's paying a white supremacist who pinky-promises you he'll feed people you just have to give him money. The white supremacist chooses what he wants to do with the money: maybe he'll feed people because they're white, maybe he'll beat people because they're black, but one thing is for sure: he will always work for his own benefit. Not for others, not for you, and certainly not for disabled people.

The correct comparison with AI is not, as many people say, a neutral tool. AI is a political project aiming at domination of a large part of the population. The apt comparison is slavery. Yes, it can be very useful ! It's free workforce, you don't need to argue with it, concede anything, and things just get done. Slavery is fine if you're part of the dominating part of the population, just like AI is fine if you're part of the dominating part of population. If you're on the other side you will always be exploited, dehumanized, tortured (yes, subjecting people to constan horrors in the name of "training" is torture)

Let's redo your analogy now:

I've been cooking for the homeless but I'm getting tired. Is it ok to ask slaves to cook meals for me so I can give the meals to homeless ?

Slavery, and AI, isn't going to help the homeless or the disabled. Destroying the earth, appropriating others' art and work and knowledge for personal profit is not helping, it's actively hurting.

What is at stake here, really, is your own appreciation of the goods vs the bads of AI. If the literal anti-democratic project is acceptable because it makes you feel like a good person ("I'm helping people !") then there is a big work to be done to unravel that. When your personal opinion of yourself is more important than the actual good you might do, something is wrong.