I haven’t read your article yet, just the excerpt. But I have a question. Is the tool this disabled person is using something that could potentially be replicated in a way that doesn’t rely on chatgpt?

There are Generative AI LLM’s trained entirely on non stolen data that could be used for this purpose I believe. But even if there weren’t, is there another piece of tech that could potentially take ChatGPT’s place and still be equally as useful?

My answer is this: We may have made significant advances in medicine from the multiple times humans have experimented on other humans without their knowledge and consent. Those advances have definitely saved lives. However, that still doesn’t make it right to experiment on someone against their will and without their knowledge. This may not be an equally egregious breach of ethics for a comparison, but I think you understand my point.

Just because there is a silver lining to a bad situation, doesn’t mean the bad situation isn’t bad.

Edit:

I followed the link, it’s not an article, it’s a cross post to another Lemmy post. I followed that to the video. Please note I have only watched about 15 minutes of this video. However, I have some additional thoughts.

This person used ChatGPT to code python software to give his brother (basically paralyzed from the neck down with no vocal abilities and poor eyesight) some significant quality of life upgrades that allowed him to better communicate and gave him free choice to do a number of activities. I can appreciate wanting to take a shortcut to get a resolution to those problems sooner rather than later, especially given his brother’s condition. It makes sense to want to do this himself because he obviously had definite parameters in mind for this software.

However, he had already begun to learn python. Not only could he have continued to learn (and used resources like those that ChatGPT stole from in the first place), but he could also have collaborated with other people with similar special needs, giving them a chance to share the benefit of this software, and their loved ones or carers the chance to further this tool.

I went into this assuming that this tool used ChatGPT for the purposes of predictive text to speech or similar. That does not appear to be the case so far.

If chatGPT didn’t exist this man would still have been able to develop this tool over time and perhaps with the help of some very talented coders who would be happy to help and even to troubleshoot, and give tips or share ideas.

I think my initial point still stands. But those are my thoughts.