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forestine 1d ago

another take about the proliferation of ai music meaning that people need to "get out and see shows in real life" and these always upset me as an immunocompromised person

you can find non ai music online still. there are still lots of people doing it. try being more mindful about your listening and not listening to the spotify playlists that they fill with slop

support people on bandcamp and mirlo and bandwagon and subvert

check out live streamed music which is still happening for real. i know a place where you can check out hundreds of hours of modular synths

stop separating "real life" from "online" as if they are mutually exclusive, and make people like me feel like shit and like nothing they do counts. Every time i play a show i have to take a risk because nobody masks and they don't clean the air and a lot of my friends can't come and that fucking sucks

Shows are great. But not everyone can make it to shows. Not everyone lives somewhere there are shows. Not everyone is physically able to attend shows. Some people are high risk and have to take a risk every time.

This is a Yes, And situation. Be more mindful about music if you want to hear stuff that people made.

forestine 1d ago

literally all the local musicians i'm friends with are reposting that fucking post and it's making me upset

forestine 1d ago

if you've decided to quit all social media and go participate in "real life", are you taking any time to check on your disabled comrades ever again or are you expecting them to all quit and come out and play outside with you? because otherwise, you're just abandoning them.

Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 1d ago

@forestine the general answer to that is probably "disabled what now?" because holy fuck are the "fuck social media! fuck technology!" people just..... very willing to throw disabled people under the bloody bus

forestine 1d ago

@freya yeah they really are

Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 1d ago

@forestine I met a truly delightful one who ouitright said that some depopulation will be required to save the planet, and that if an entity needs technology to survive, maybe they shouldn't which. I. uh. no. fuck off

forestine 1d ago

@freya yeah there is a LOT of casual eugenics going on around so called progressive people

Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

@forestine @freya I cut off 2 longtime former friends because of their casual eugenics BS. Earlier this year. I tried to talk to both of them first. I cut them out because they are too selfish to reflect & do better. Both also started spouting antimasking shit to me 🤬

Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 1d ago

@PhoenixSerenity @forestine what the fuck?

Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

@freya @forestine They are no longer worthy of being my friend. No ableism allowed.

Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 1d ago

@PhoenixSerenity @forestine I've got people who think I'm bad for using AI for image descriptions and helping me with code and it's like. I can barely remember 20 lines of code, but I still want to make things. am I supposed to just................get better? is that how that works?

Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

@freya @forestine I think most people, including me, who are very against AI, believe that AI creators - who exploit people who depend on digital assistance for more online accessibility - can develop code specifically for accessibility usage but have chosen not to do that humanitarian work. They are ableists who have forced people with disabilities into a corner, refused to develop for better accessibility & run fast towards unethical AI opportunities.

Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 1d ago

@PhoenixSerenity @forestine pure classifier-based image descriptions were severely limited and could not make inferences about what's going on, nor could they do things like identify locations, actually describe people, etc.

Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

@freya @forestine Again, this is a developer failure issue.

Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 1d ago

@PhoenixSerenity @forestine I'd love to see non-LLM-based image describers that can do that, but I don't think they're possible, you need the level of complexity of an LLM to do that

Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

@freya @forestine You're never going to see that evolvement if AI oligarchs don't want it to happen. They don't want more accessibility for disabled people, in general. They want everyone to believe we all need AI to survive.

Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 1d ago

@PhoenixSerenity @forestine hey I mean all I can say is I can now share photos with other blind folks where I couldn't before. one overnight run of Gemini on all of them, 20.5GB of photos, NZ$40 later, and they all now have descriptions

Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

@freya @forestine Great. I want accessibility for all disabled folks without them all having to succumb to AI exploiters/abusers. Developers can definitely do much better. Which is why I'm working on workshops here for citizens on accessibility & open source software & why AI dependence is a tool for fascists.

Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩

@PhoenixSerenity @forestine awawawaw! I agree!

Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

@freya @forestine Disabled folks deserve better. We will fight for it.