Michael Mathews
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Introducing WebAccessBench, a novel benchmark for AI language models to assess #accessibility quality and WCAG conformance in generated web interfaces under realistic prompting conditions.
I did a bit of research and found that LLMs are incredibly bad at basic digital accessibility tasks. You can compare models and read the full white paper at https://conesible.de/wab.
Overall data suggests massive implications for society at large, and major discrimination of people with disabilities. #a11y
Among the many things Doctorow gets wrong in That Post is this:
"It's not 'unethical' to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That's just 'a search engine.'"
Apart from the fact that AI companies are particularly malicious in the way they scrape the web, I'd say we accept search engine scraping mostly on the premise that it's done for the benefit of the scraped sites. There's no such principle of mutual benefit in AI scraping — the AI company gets the value of the data scraped and you get bupkis at best, and possibly DDoS'd
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.