PTPL 232 · AI and autism: careful with policing those quaint turns of phrase, please

Plus how to learn when you’ve started to believe the lie that you can’t Autism and AI There’s a new acronym floating around, based on “tl:dr” (too long, didn’t read). It’s “ai:dr”. Clever, sure, but also problematic. Maybe you are pretty good at sniffing out AI-written content, but I bet you don’t get it right 100% of the time. Chris Trottier talks about the accessibility advantages of artificial intelligence for the autistic community, and how defending human intelligence can stray into dodgy territory. “No matter how much you dislike AI, there’s still a huge difference between criticizing it and policing how humans are permitted to communicate. Because if your defence of human authenticity requires autistic people to prove they’re human, something has gone seriously wrong.” Some autistic people naturally write like AI — whoops! I mean, AI has learned to write using patterns that come naturally to some autistic people. The best way I can think of to tell which is which is for the…

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