RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/117315761403151624
I share this one, for blind users like me. We must become aware of what Meta really does.
Some days ago, I saw a post on the applevis.com website (a community for blind and low vision users) very enthusiastic of Muse and what it does, simply sending a message via WhatsApp. True, here in the EU, Muse isn't available.
I was astonished of that, and wondered where the trap was.
And now here it is: Meta involves humans, making us believe that we are using a machine.
That means, we are using Meta's slaves.
Because when a human works for 24 hours, paid a pair of cents or even nothing, the word to use is slavery.
People following me here, know that I don't agree with most guilty narration/propaganda shared by extremists in the "no AI" movement, so I rather push forwards the awareness narration, that is, Meta is acquiring slaves and providing them to us, declaring it's giving us a machine-driven service. In other words, they're de-humanizing someone in Africa or in who knows which other unmentioned country.
And consequences? We can in short term use these agents as an accessibility aid, to overcome barriers placed by original site's developers and designers; but then? Restaurants, shops, etc, have their right to block automated (or semi-automated) services from browsing their site and acting in it. Then? Inaccessibility issues remain there, undocumented. With them unaware. With the result of us remaining blind as before, but screwed and fooled. Seduced and abandoned, unaware of having exploited someone else's slave.
Who should feel guilty then? Meta, I think; they're in the heaviest position.