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    AI (ML) transcription and image/text recognition is helpful, but that came out so long before the slop generators that I’m not sure it can be put under the same ‘AI’ umbrella.

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    I work disability support and have found ChatGPT to be really helpful for someone I work with who has cerebral palsy. Basically he prompts GPT to make his sentences more concise and it does just that.

    For him, that’s really helpful.

    Of course, to each their own, but I believe it does have its place in assisting people with disabilities IF THEY WANT AI ASSISTANCE

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      I teach a course in disability in education settings and about 10% of learning disabilities are a writing disorder called dysgraphia. You can think of it like a writing version of dyslexia (which is like, 80% of learning disabilities). LLMs are absolutely a reasonable accomodation in this case as well because it can help people who have trouble putting their thoughts into words.

      That’s just one example, and generally what I teach is scaffolding – that is, you try not to over rely on tools and use them when needed to improve learning when learning would otherwise not be possible. After all, dyslexic people still need to be able to read on occasion, and dysgrapic people need to be able to write, and so on.

      (And do keep on mind I teach and LLMs are a bit of a nightmare in grading so do understand I say this use case still very much not a pro-AI person, lol)

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        Everything is owned by billionaires. The health care system is owned by billionaires. Are you saying people should refuse health care that improves their lives for that reason?

        Fix the system. Don’t shit on people trying to survive it.

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      Damn right.

      I can finally dictate my work and have it come out with the right words, the right spelling and the right punctuation.

      Rather than spending longer cleaning up the dictations than I saved by not typing.

      F**k AI for its nonsense and hype, but glad to have a better spell checker.

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        To be fair “fuck AI” is about generative AI specifically instead of spel-checkers and weather predictors.

        For example the “AI image generators let disabled people do art now” argument.

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          Or even, “fuck your privilege “! Unless my wife wants to paint holding the brush in her mouth don’t kick her in the expression. You want royalties for artist or advance optin for model training I’m with you.

          Edit:Didn’t realize the community I was in. Sorry all.

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      He’s responding to a post saying AI use for accessibility purposes is probably the only moral use.

      I mean, fuck AI. But if it helps accessibility and exists, I’m in favor of people using it for that if they choose.