#ChatGPT accessibility

[filehulk]

OpenAI now lets you call ChatGPT on your phone

OpenAI is making strides toward transforming ChatGPT into an “everything app” by enabling users to make phone calls to it and message it on WhatsApp. Starting today, users can call ChatGPT or send it messages on WhatsApp. By adding the number 1-800-ChatGPT to your contacts, you can initiate a phone call or chat with it directly. During a live demo, OpenAI demonstrated how users on a road trip…

[disabledaiuser]

People say a lot of things about AI. That it’s theft. That using it is lazy. That using it makes you less human. That there is no valid reason for anyone to use AI.

The accusation of theft would be easy to debunk if anyone was willing to listen. But they don’t want to understand how AI works. Or to understand that whether drawn or generated, fair use protection matters. That the idea of intellectual property is a way for capitalism to control the means of expression.

But educating people out of ableism is harder. Educating people out of fascism is harder. 

How do I explain to people who are unwilling to listen that AI has transformed my ability to function and express as a disabled person? Without them telling me I have no soul. That I am lazy. The leftism leaves their bodies so easily I wonder if it was ever really there.

[malinowaj]

coworker asking me why i translated a set of instructions myself and didn’t just use chatGPT. i’ve never wanted to say ”fuck you” to someone more than i did then.

[slyandthefamilybook]

it's funny that people compare AI to calculators. "oh people were so scared of calculators when they came out." I remember kids in my math class asking "why do we need to learn this stuff?" and the teacher responding "you won't always have a calculator to hand." of course now we all do have calculators with us and those kids who over-relied on them can't do basic algebra as adults

[caffeinesam]

FFS I THOUGHT IT WAS OVERWHELMING THE MUNICIPAL WATER PUMPS BUT NO THEY'RE DROPPING THE MOTHERFUCKING WATER TABLE AND CAUSING THE MOTHERFUCKING GROUND TO COLLAPSE

[whiskingskin]

Actually devastated by the amount of people I know that use ChatGPT as a therapist. Devastated. It's "fuck AI, AI is destroying the planet" until it's convenient for you huh

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

see like the thing with ai is I literally don’t give a shit if people, like, make their own with reasonable training data (that isn’t ridiculously huge enough to cause environmental damage) for personal private use only and with material that’s also like. not breaking laws. that’s fine. i don’t see an issue with ai conceptually. i have an issue with massive scams that break multiple important laws (and even break the laws I think suck in a way that’s somehow even more flagrantly unfair than following them- copyright sucks but allowing tech bros exclusively to break it while not protecting small creators in any way is somehow even worse) and is also done so incompetently it wastes an absurd amount of unnecessary energy in the training process.

[ishouldreallybeelsewhere]

new kind of person unlocked: my girlfriend's coworker who, in three weeks, became a complete conspiracy theorist, talking about the vibrations that make up the universe, and the crystals that will bring you to the psychic layer of the universe, and that the pyramids are super conductors, that all humans used to be psychically linked, but the 'elites' prevent us from unlocking our full potential, and all music is bad vibrations, and that we produce crystals in our penal glands that act exactly like crystals in computers, which are all psychically linked, so we can link like computers do

his source? chatGPT.

[pamshortsbrokenbothherlegs]

CONTROVERSIAL POST :// AI USE

i'm sorry guys but ChatGPT is an incredible tool for people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities. My brain fog has been debilitating the last few days and chat GPT has been the only thing that has allowed me to do my job and not absolutely wipe myself out. girls when things are nuanced please don't cancel me i'm just trying to stay employed while disabled

[aflamethatneverdies]

i don't like talking about my experiences with academia, but tbvh, my master's involved writing a lot of essays where I and others who were international students struggled so much more because we hadn't had the knowledge or tools to develop academic writing (a very specific skill set) the way others who had gone through the british education system had, so naturally they were much better at it. And I wanted to improve, I wanted to learn, I asked classmates to review my thesis before submission, I borrowed their thesis to study how they formatted and wrote it. I took a small class in writing essays along with all of the stuff I already had to do for my masters but, I still got lower grades compared to my peers even though I followed all the rules as best as I could figure them out.

All through my master's I blamed myself so much for having issues with being not smart enough when the others in my cohort were being so effortlessly good at this. And it was a consistent pattern too, kids from international backgrounds struggled, I saw it all the time. And we were expected to figure it all out ourselves.

I'm sorry but, i have no patience for treating academic writing and academia as this hallowed ground. fuck that actually.

[inseparabiles]

Gays, throw me your wildest fanfic dreams and I'll put exactly some effort into making them happen every day of this Pride month.

If you won't, I'm asking ChatGPT instead. You've been warned. Save us from whatever our AI overlords think I should really be writing.

[florallychaotic]

I'm gonna be honest the way people in the academic field share "stories" about students using chatgpt is starting to sound like how your parents talked about using crack in the 90s. Yeah it's not great. No, the story you are telling me totally happened to you or someone you know did not actually happen.

[navree]

"if you use chatgpt for anything other than summarizing or editing in your schoolwork that's lowkey not great blah blah blah" stfu if you use chatgpt in literally any way especially for the work you are paying for the privilege to do you're a giant dork ass loser and you should get smacked in the head with a ceramic plate

[merge-conflict]

The problem with grounding my netrunning stuff in reality for my fic is that now I have to imagine how a realtime slapfight between a one-person SOC in a controlled work environment and a give ‘em hell script jockey with a shitty laptop and a premium malware control suite is going to go.

[mathsandcomedydotcom]

It is possible to employ AI in Search-Engine Optimisation. In my view, good semantic, accessible, validated HTML5 along with the correct meta tags go a very long way to optimising a website, with the goal of improving its ranking when searched for in a search engine such as Google’s. Web designers are very often lazy. Web Designers very often use div tags instead of the numerous semantic tags which proliferated when the HTML5 standard was released, in 2008–2014. “sema” in Greek means “sign”. Thus, “semantic tags” “signify stuff”, whereas div tags do not. Web designers very often do not add an alt description when including images. Very often web designers neglect to include ARIA attributes in their HTML code for the sake of screen-reading devices employed by the visually impaired. Very often web designers fail to validate their HTML. Very often web designers use CSS art instead of inline SVG. In my view, coding good HTML5 is a Search-Engine-Optimisation exercise all in itself.

[omegaphilosophia]

Understanding Partially Public Goods: Excludability and Rivalry

There are several things that could potentially be considered public goods but are not due to various reasons. These goods may be excludable (meaning access can be restricted) or rivalrous (meaning consumption by one person reduces availability to others) to some extent. Here are some examples:

Broadcast Television: While television broadcasts are non-excludable (many people can watch the same program simultaneously), they are not entirely non-rivalrous. Limited advertising space and time slots mean that the more viewers a program attracts, the more revenue it generates. Therefore, broadcast television is not a pure public good.

WiFi in Public Spaces: Publicly available WiFi in parks or airports is often considered a public good because anyone can access it freely. However, it can be limited by factors such as bandwidth, speed, and user restrictions, making it partially excludable and rivalrous to some extent.

Clean Air: Clean air is typically regarded as a classic public good because it is non-excludable and non-rivalrous. However, localized air pollution can affect air quality in specific areas, making it somewhat rivalrous on a regional scale.

Public Transportation: Public transportation systems aim to provide accessible services to everyone. Still, they are not entirely non-excludable, as users typically need to pay fares, and they can become congested during peak hours, introducing rivalry for seating and space.

Online Information: Information on the internet is often considered a public good because it can be freely accessed by anyone. However, some content is protected by paywalls, and high-quality, specialized information may require subscriptions or fees, making it partially excludable.

National Parks: National parks are intended to provide natural beauty and recreational opportunities to all. However, access to some areas may require entrance fees or permits, rendering them partially excludable.

Social Media Platforms: Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter offer free access to users worldwide. However, they are not pure public goods because users' data and content contribute to their revenue through advertising and data monetization.

In these examples, the classification of goods as public or non-public depends on factors like the degree of excludability and rivalry. While they exhibit some characteristics of public goods, they are not entirely non-excludable and non-rivalrous, which is the hallmark of pure public goods like clean air or national defense.