Notices by Matthias Ott (matthiasott@mastodon.social)

“Far from being the magical, novel creations of brilliant machines, the outputs of this kind of AI is entirely dependent on the uncredited and unremunerated work of generations of human artists.

AI image and text generation is pure primitive accumulation: expropriation of labour from the many for the enrichment and advancement of a few Silicon Valley technology companies and their billionaire owners.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-stupidity-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-dall-e-chatgpt

@tink @notabene It might be like with voice user interfaces in general. It is a rapidly growing market and voice assistants and interfaces are all around us already. Yet is has still not reached a point at which everyone is naturally considering voice as one central aspect of the experience, especially outside of an accessibility context.

✍️ New post: Screen Readers Don’t Convey the Semantics of STRONG and EM

#a11y #html #semantics #TimeToFreshBlogpost

https://matthiasott.com/notes/screen-readers-semantics-strong-em

@tink @notabene Ah, I see. So the CSS Speech Module is primarily aimed at improving speech synthesis for web readers, for now, and not screen readers? Then I’ll add this important info to my short article I wrote about CSS Speech two days ago. Thanks a lot, Léonie! 🤗 Have a wonderful Sunday.

✍️ New post: Uncontainable Container Query Excitement

#css #layout #TimeToFreshBlogpost

https://matthiasott.com/notes/uncontainable-container-query-excitement