Comment by SwellJoe
2 days ago
The place I have seen the most discussion of use of AI as assistive technology is, by far, Mastodon. I follow a couple of blind developers who talk about it regularly (both are nerds I hold in very high regard, the exact kind of real nerd I want to interact with), and who are involved in developing accessible software.
As I mentioned above, there are folks on Mastodon with reactionary anti-AI views, but it's the only place I've ever been where most images have alt text written with care and the intention to include folks with visual impairments. It is also where a lot of people with disabilities have fled after abuse on other platforms.
You're not a victim if you post shitty AI "art" and get insulted for it. It is because of the pervasive use of it for disinformation and predatory purposes that it has such a bad reputation, not because people call it out. There are folks who are being assholes about it (acknowledged above), but I'll take that over genocidal white nationalism and child porn.
But, honestly, it sounds like maybe you're in the right place. If your instinct is to jump to "both sides" arguments when one "side" is literally supporting ethnic cleansing and the other is kind of rude about AI art, maybe X is your hole. Maybe it was made for you. I won't be joining you there, and I'm unwilling to pretend the choice you're making doesn't support an international white supremacist agenda.
No idea why you keep bringing up child porn, that's not allowed literally anywhere.
Overtly genocidal speech isn't exactly exclusive to white supremacists. "Kill all men" used to be a meme among progressives, and I collected quite a few examples of its use over the years. As a man, I didn't find it amusing at all. There is actual feminist literature backing it.
People in general are not immune to any of these extremist impulses. I refuse to give any particular group license to act with impunity.
If X happened to be aligned with those views, then it certainly would be the place for me. Unfortunately, you just demonstrated that X is just as biased towards the other side. I don't want that either.
It's clear that we have different, possibly irreconcilable values, so I don't intend to prolong this discussion any further.