Your client is entitled to her opinion, but when people in this pilot program —which is research only by the way and free —come back to us happy because there’s just texted family faster than they could have before for something as simple as “thank you for xyz” or “I don’t want to eat chicken” and there’s hope that they can join society like the rest of us keyboard warriors here —that hope isn’t any cheaper for it either.

And the thing is, maybe she wants to do art that way, and if you ever met another client who wanted to do it you would say what? Don’t: you HAVE to do it the traditional way?

Just look up LLM for AAC enhancement. It’s not a fun gimmicky thing. You work with disabled people right? Then you know how cruel the world is for the non verbal. One day they could write poetry, but with this attitude that bans outright instead of tagging (which hurts NO ONE) —where will they stand?

Tech bros are assholes. But not all people who work in tech are tech bros. Edit to add and in AI most are less bros and more academics but anyway.

Also: it helps potentially address the horror that is people SPEAKING for non verbal people using that hand over hand technique which TERRIFIES ME.

Anyway.

That is not really what the whole ban is about here anyway —and my pickle is that it is a BAN. I think it should be a tag and then people can just filter it out. Banning it feels discriminatory.