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Ah the fallacy of 'universal accessibility'

Not everything done in the name of accesility makes it accessible to all, nor does accessibility have a necessary correlation with 'good design'.

That's not to say we should't strive for both and require accesible solutions, but let's not pretend putting lightswitches 40" from the floor or those bumpy concrete pads in grocery store parking lots are better for everyone.


The reason JAWS and Voiceover are to widely used is not because no one else has tried.

I'd reckon 90% of 'accessiblity' software was written by a sighted or hearing dev that thought they had an idea that would be 'helpful'.


Most blind people don't even use a Mac, they use JAWS or NVDA on Windows.


Copyright fair use rules are tools designed to govern how humans use protected works in dervied works. AI is not human use, therefore the rules are only coincidentally correct for AI use where it even is.


If you take that approach to fair use, don't you open the door to the same argument for copyright itself?

How do you distinguish between a tool and the director of a tool? I doubt people would say that a person is immune to copyright or fair use rules because it was the pen that wrote the document, not the person.


I think it's a valid question. Suppose you have two LLMs interacting with each other in a loop, and one randomly prompts the other to reproduce the entire text of Harry Potter, which the other then does. However, the chat log isn't actually stored anywhere, it's just a transient artifact of the interaction - so no human ever sees it nor can see it even in principle. Is it a copyright violation then? If it is, what are the damages?


> don’t you open the door to the same argument for copyright itself?

Yes, it comes down to intentional control of output. Copyright applies when someone uses a pen to make a drawing because of the degree of control.

On the flip side there are copyright free photos where an animal picked up a camera etc, the same applies to a great deal of automatically generated data. The output of an LLM is likely in the public domain unless it’s a derivative work of something in the training set.


"It's just doing what a human would do!" -Internet AI Expert


You should view this page in Microsoft Edge for the best experience! \s


Serves them right.


Who would have predicted turning customer support over to AI with no human interv


They thought "Well, I guess this makes me one of those people for whom "Not talking about politics with Friends" becomes a core tenent to my personal philosophy."


If this is Elon post Ketamine, what drug can we give him to put him back in a negative frame of mind?


Even Old New York used to be call New Amsterdam..


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