Oh ja. Wenn man sich anschaut, was man laut Politik alles machen soll, dann ist das schon harter Abuse was alles gefordert wird. Neben meiner 40+ Stunden-Woche mache ich noch eine Weiterbildung, engagiere mich ehrenamtlich, ziehe 2,1 Kinder groß, konsumiere fleißig, aber bitte nicht zu viel, weil ich ja noch für die Rente vorsorge. Mit meinen bewussten Konsumentscheidungen sorge ich dann auch noch dafür, dass die Bauern ihre Kühe weniger quälen und keine Küken schreddern. Ich ernähre mich gesund und gehe immer zu allen Vorsorgeuntersuchungen, sorge aber gleichzeitig dafür, dass die so wichtige deutsche Bier- und Weinindustrie Umsatz macht.

Das gute alte Stenkelfeld hat sich doch schon vor über 10 Jahren über die komplizierten Bahntarife lustig gemacht:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81AFFkNvZAs

I think that technology can really help us here. OCR on images is mostly solved. If you know what PaddleOCR can do, those people on Mastodon who are whining about others not including an image description for a screenshot seem really annoying. It is possible to do this directly on your computer without any costs, without the need for beefy hardware. So no need to try to force everyone else to include transcriptions for screenshot, no need to attack other people, just do it yourself and enjoy the text on the screenshot. Technology can really help us here.

This also does kind of apply to AI image descriptions. Try it and put an image into Gemini and ask it to describe it. You will be surprised. AI can totally give you a workable description of an image. The problem here is that those AI tools can get quite expensive when you are using them a lot and that many disabled people do not have much money. So in my opinion it totally is ok to include AI image descriptions.

I think that there are too many people in the fediverse who do not know the current state of the technology and hate AI for maybe the right reasons, but who are missing out how it could help them.

Since AI is a buzzword with no actual meaning behind it covering several technologies: What do you actually want to ban here?

• AI-generated images and memes?
• Bots posting AI-generated posts?
• Mods using machine-learning to search for posts containing slurs or racist attacks?
• Posts about AI at all?
• What about communities discussing using LocalLLMs on their devices?
• What about users using LLMs as a fancy autocorrect to correct their spelling?
• Or would non-english users using some translation engine for their posts be banned?