Comment by banannaise
2 days ago
This is weaponizing the situation of a single disabled person. The correct response is to make exceptions based on extreme circumstances, not to accept this behavior from everyone.
Too often, advocates try to smuggle in their preferred policy using stories like this as cover.
Coming from a social scene in which I'm involved in modding and deconstructing video games, this behavior was immediately apparent to me. It's the same contrived story that cheaters use to explain why they really really need a feature that gives them an advantage over other players in online games.
The story itself being true or not doesn't really matter - they're weaponizing an appeal to emotion by using a disabled person as a prop to violate everyone else's standards of interaction.
The overton window has shifted so much that we can call balls and strikes as we see them without creating too much reee'ing. As long as people stay civil, it's good.
Count me as a weapon, too, then.
This is not weaponizing to a single disabled person. I am not disabled, but I have always had difficulty expressing myself effectively, and that difficulty has increased as I've aged. I use AI to help organize my thoughts, to help give voice to that little tidbit of an idea that is trying to escape, and it has been a genuine help. Asking me to not use that assistance is similar to asking a user to not use accessibility features. It's an asinine policy and is an overcorrection.
Is this not the difference between using AI as an aid to organise yourself, as opposed to using AI as a total replacement for your thoughts or your writing and therefore removing the personal touch?
The bone of contention is that the signal:noise ratio on GPT's output is super low and there is no way to tell the difference between a thoughtful GPT post and slop, and given how easy it is to post at volume with low-effort AI posts, there is a bias towards caution rather than acceptance.
At best it's a case-by-case affordance to use AI as opposed to a blanket rule.
> as opposed to using AI as a total replacement for your thoughts or your writing and therefore removing the personal touch?
I'm really having trouble grasping the true breadth of this problem in the wild. How much of it am I not seeing because the mods filter it out first? How much is faulty signal detection from readers?