• pavnilschanda@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    As an autistic who struggles with communication and organizing thoughts, LLMs have been helping me process emotions and articulating things. Not perfectly in the way that you’d describe (hence i mostly don’t use LLM outputs themselves as replies), but my situation is much better than pre-November 2022

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      3 months ago

      It is a shame LLM’s weren’t designed to be a common good to Disabled people though. We’re just a happy use case accident for these companies and AI manufacturers. It’s tricky because this could be done just as well, I figure, with specifically designed LLM’s instead of generic ones. @pavnilschanda @CarbonIceDragon

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        3 months ago

        There are some efforts for LLM use for disabled people, such as GoblinTools. And you’re very right about disabled people benefitting from LLMs being a happy use case accident. With that being the reality, it’s frustrating how so many people who blindfully defend AI use disabled people as a shield against ethical concerns. Tech companies themselves like to use us to make themselves look good; see the “disability dongle” concept as a prime example.