Post #3732964
2026-06-20 22:40 UTC
@matt@toot.cafe the way that public LLM services are structured, there is a relatively brief moment (~6 years at the outside i would say) where a marginalized community like the blind community can use this resource boondoggle as a way to steal from broader society. And there’s a zero-sum aspect to this; if it’s not the screenreaders stealing, it’s gonna be bitcoin dropshipping startup bros. So I have a certain level of sympathy for the transitive theft happening here; there’s a robin-hood like story
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-06-20 22:40
@matt@toot.cafe When the music stops, though, there will be no replacement for these tools, no trillion-dollar compute clusters maintained in perpetuity, no good-faith AI-free open source volunteer community to indefinitely plunder for new code and new training data. So if you are going to burn down the world to get a better screen reader you need to make a plan right now to live in the ashes. (And maybe we need to make that plan regardless, since somebody else will burn it down even if we don’t.)