Accessibility & ethics in design
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so if AI is so amazing, why don’t articles and books written with it have huge “proudly made with AI” banners and stickers on it
we all know why
In Ireland, for 22% of total electricity, data centers provide 3,300 jobs
There are about 2,800,000 employed in Ireland.
For every 1% of Irish electricity, data centers provide 150 jobs
In the rest of the economy, for every 1% of electricity, 35,897 jobs are provided.
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Now I see companies pitching accessible & “AI-ready” or “agent friendly” work, often still including SEO.
I’m calling foul.
We’ve already seen anti-user guidance from LLM companies asking for their notion of accessible sites.
Never mind that these PhD-level genius tools can’t handle a general site most kids navigate with ease. Let’s ignore the failure of their technology.
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Using SEO to justify accessibility was only ever a technique for bosses / clients driven by dashboards, money.
Ideally, you want to get past that ASAP to drive better outcomes for humans, not SERPs.
I get it as a foot-in-the-door tactic — hopefully no further.
But it also drove alt text keyword stuffing (among other bad practices).
So I was always wary of companies pitching accessibility *and* SEO in their marketing.
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
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An important lession we kids learned in germany when talking to older people:
There might be people who decided to ignore the genocide. And later say "But we just followed orders!" or "But we didn't know anything about all of this. We would have protest, but we just didn't know!!"
And then you go to the archive and check the local newspapers from that time, read through the articles and realize: It's a lie. Everyone knew.
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