normy foxyoreos

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Tamer alt account for https://gulp.cafe/@foxyoreos where I try my best to keep things more SFW/vanilla. If you're not comfortable interacting with my NSFW account, interact with this one :3

This is also the account you should ping if you're on mastodon.social and want to interact with me (gulp.cafe limits some servers). If you're on mastodon.social and reply to a gulp.cafe post, I won't see it by default.

I still reserve the right to be cringe as fuck UwU

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normy foxyoreosMar 10
Show threadEugen RochkoMar 10
I have the impression that primarily anglophone people don't read as much translated literature, because so much good literature already exists in their language, so this issue may not be as familiar within that demographic. As someone who did not grow up anglophone, I can tell you there is a world of difference between a good and a bad translation even when done by humans. Machine translations are not even on the scale.
Show threadnormy foxyoreosMar 10

I also see a lot of members of those communities saying that things are getting worse. That blind accessibility has not gotten better with the rise of LLMs. That the net effect of these tools is a *less* accessible Internet.

And that is very plausible to me, I believe that, because I've seen it play out before with technology that isn't even as harmful as LLMs are.

Like, who could object to AI voice transcription? And yet, the result isn't simply good.

Show threadnormy foxyoreosMar 10

We could have official ways (not just replies/comments) to suggest and accept alt text from community members with the press of a button.

But where LLMs are concerned, I see the same thing playing out in that space. I have seen LLM evangelists argue that this is blind accessibility, that this is helping non-English community members, and like.. on the edges, sure! I guess?

But...

Show threadnormy foxyoreosMar 10

I don't want the OCR stuff removed! But I do think that like.. there's a warning here, and it comes up every time we try to automate accessibility.

Accessibility is a community effort, and tools that can alleviate the burden are helpful, but are not a substitute for human interaction and effort.

And many accessibility spaces are under-developed *because of these tools*. We could have a "boost with alt text" option on Mastodon.

Show threadnormy foxyoreosMar 10

I have also mildly criticized Mastodon over this with its AI alt text features. They're not an LLM, and they're probably good for accessibility, but their existence has hobbled alt text on the platform.

We could have better community alt text controls on Mastodon, and I think part of the reason we don't is because of a mentality that accessibility is just like a chore we have to solve.

And I think the AI stuff helps reinforce that, a bit.

normy foxyoreosMar 10

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116206874904164848

I always bring up auto-captioning as a (non-LLM) technology that is probably a net-win for accessibility, but that still led to Youtube ending up with *WORSE* closed captioning, because as soon as they got machine transcription, they dropped community transcription options.

Machine transcription on Youtube led to a local maximum where community options that often resulted in better transcriptions are now unavailable and everything is kind of meh.

Show threadnormy foxyoreosFeb 20
Quote posts only very recently shipped and they're a huge improvement, and we only got them because multiple communities joined and said, "yes, yes, we understand the concerns and the concerns are important and should be addressed, but also you have to add these, come on."
normy foxyoreosFeb 20

I'm completely out of the loop on the Jirai thing, but I've seen a few critters post about being nice. If you're in that community, and Mastodon is missing features that you need, suggest them (and do research, obviously, but..).

Many improvements on this platform come from new communities joining and saying "okay most of this great, but this part specifically.. you all live like this?"

It is good for the platform to get conversation about new features coming from new communities.

#jirai

Show threadnormy foxyoreosJan 24

In my young, young misguided years growing up as a kid, being raised as a nice good little obedient Republican, I wanted open borders. As a fucking conservative.

It has been so fucking weird to hear my entire life that something that is obviously true regardless of political alignment is somehow an extreme position.

Our xenophobia over immigration in this country from Republicans AND Democrats is indefensible.

Show threadnormy foxyoreosJan 24

This is not weird. What's weird is looking at an activity that is obviously helpful for America, obviously improves the economy, obviously does not hurt jobs or encourage crime, that is obviously good - and being like, "well surely we all agree we want less of that."

Not to mention, movement is a fucking fundamental right.