> I’d say the LLM spit absolute bullshit in about 60% of cases. I’d say my students—graduate students in computer science, intelligent adults with some knowledge of code—accurately assessed that the LLM was spitting absolute bullshit in about 70% of cases (with 30% slipping through). Multiply .60 and .30 together, and you get about a 1 in 5 chance of drek from a semi-knowledgable human augmented approach to AI-assisted code understanding.
we're going to be cleaning up very insidious errors left over from this crapfest for decades, aren't we. (assuming we still have electricity in decades.) NFTs and blockchains were nothing compared to this damage
I'm reminded of Dijkstra rant against calling programmer errors "bugs" because it's a form of responsibility laundering. with LLMs you can now achieve massive, never-seen-before throughput of responsibility laundering per second
@hypolite the problem with accessibility is that LLMs are inherently unreliable; they by design and inevitably produce errors that seem correct and are hard to spot.
suppose a company fires their accessibility engineers cos now they can autogenerate imagine descriptions with ChatGPT. as is by now beyond question, a large fraction of these will look good enough but be in fact wrong or lacking. do you honestly think that they will invest the labour to proofread it all? it's not even clear if that labour is significantly cheaper than the ones they used the LLM to kill in the first place.
LLM accessibility is like electric cars: a distraction that lets capitalists increase their hold of capital and maintain business as usual while sounding like they're doing something that will prove to be a solution, any day now... at the cost of worsening the actual existing problem, immediately.
@elilla I fully agree with you, and the only marginally useful case of LLM-powered accessibility tools I know about is for companies that didn’t have any accessibility engineers on staff at all.
just spend some time with a couple of Polish people trying to remember what was the "vegan dumplings" or "spinach rectangles" that I got from Rewe and they enjoyed. the answer wasn't what I expected xD
Germans: which packaged vegan product do you think the spinach rectangles turned out to be?
everybody's hyped for the new 1FAE9 FACE WITH BAGS UNDER EYES, which I mean, :big_mood:, but for you appreciators of text-presentation glyphs, might I draw your attention to the new range "Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement" (1CC00–1CEBF) that includes several gaming sprites from retrocomputer codesets including Pac-Man, a full set of Space Invaders, 1CC96 FLAPPING BIRD and so on—as well as a full set of box characters for #teletext emulators?
não sabia que El Chavo del 8 não está passando mais não só no Brasil mas na América inteira. de fato o apocalipse chega mais cedo em alguns lugares do que outros
do you think somewhere there's a guy who works in literary publishing and his name is Ed, and his business card reads, "Ed is the standard text editor"
back when I was doing my masters' I found it very hard to begin or to put anything on the page. but it's also very easy for me to infodump on my topics, for hours if allowed.
so a girlfriend from college helped me in this way: she offered herself as an attentive listener, and I recorded myself explaining the whole concept, proposal, literature I had read etc. to her. Then the contract was, I would transcribe the entire audio as-is onto the text, no editing. only then I was allowed to format, reorganise, add references etc.
less than a hour of talking gave me the whole skeleton for my thesis, breaking the blank page paralysis and letting me concentrate on the experiment itself.