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Hey Rick I hope you feel better later on today.

I just had to give this a boost.

@shawnhooper Woohoo buying drugs for the cat!

Nobody saw this coming.

You didn't say anything about Jammin Jerry's House of Snot Goblins I am disappoint.

No but we're just a little bit closer.

Sending you internet hugs Chris.

@atrupar Has anyone reminded him that it's his own damn fault he doesn't have a jury?

@devinprater @eric Yeah Apple's screen recognition for VoiceOver is pretty good and actually useful, and I agree with you regarding using LLMs for things like reading interfaces. But not all the other crap that it seems to be being lauded for.

@devinprater @eric Sorry for the verbosity I'm trying to keep the language as precise as possible instead of using AI as a catch-all because none of this is strictly speaking artificial intelligence.

@devinprater @eric They're getting better at describing images. The problem is that when they don't have actual info they'll just provide what sounds like good info in a confident manner, and there's no way for the user to verify that it's correct. They still do not have the context that good image description requires.

Mmmm coffee.

@devinprater @eric "AI is the new crypto" to something more serious.

@devinprater @eric Personally I'm in favor of giving the law more teeth and a proper enforcement mechanism until something like machine learning becomes reliable enough that it can be reasonably depended on. (see my discussion with Matt above). And I'm not blaming blind people for grasping at straws as it were. Just pointing out that in the end that's what this boils down to unless there is some sort of shift away from +

@devinprater @eric Yes if we had a specifically designed and trained model then the mistake part becomes a non-issue. As things stand now, this'll be great until things become inaccurat e enough so as to make the responses useless. See: model collapse.

@eric The only part that is possibly machine learning is the bit that connects to whatever image recognition thingy they're using to try to add alt text. And they're connecting to somebody's third-party API they don't have the resources to roll their own. All the rest, like the ARIA bits, is basically find/replace.

@eric Damn I was trying not to bring overlays into this because that adds a whole separate level of fuckery.

@devinprater @eric It's a mistake because, at the end of the day, large language models like GPT are being used for a whole bunch of things they're not good at doing, and this is going to cause problems down the line, to say nothing of the problems already being caused. And no I'm not talking about sentience or anything science fiction like that.

@eric Also though I think Eric's right when it comes to industry relying on AI to fix accessibility and how that's ableist.

@eric I think people treating Be My AI as the best thing since sliced bread is a huge mistake. Which is why I'm not using it. But I absolutely understand why this is happening. It's kind of like so-called drive-by lawsuits. It's completely counterproductive for blind people to lend their support/names to these efforts and it's also completely understandable when they do.