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Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia. More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist. Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water.

I am grateful for your comments but I want to clarify that screen readers are not AI and be my eyes is people.

Also I have an entire book on this if you are interested in something beyond my rage skeet

I’ve read your book. It’s amazing. 💜💜💜

Screen readers are not AI. Be My Eyes recently incorporated AI into their tooling.

Be My Eyes has implemented a computer vision partnership with OpenAI, as I understand it. I was talking with some blind advocates on a flight from DC, and they brought that up as an example of something they use, explicitly.

More info: www.bemyeyes.com/blog/introdu... The folks I was talking with (just two people) said that they mostly use the computer vision system but occasionally still call on volunteers for judgment calls like “is this brownie batter mixed enough” (that was the specific example they shared)

Work, schools, healthcare, and other spaces that are necessary for our survival and wellbeing.

To drive my point home… AI is a tool built in flawed pretenses… but saying it does no good for disabled people also denies the tangible benefits it provides as a stopgap when spaces are not accessible. This does not erase the harm, but the conversation has nuance and asks questions about:

Where as a society are we investing our resources if the labor of caring for and accommodating disabled bodies is labour worth automating? This is the insidious ableism in the rhetoric of pro-AI apologists who hide behind positive disability principles.