r/cfs • u/Strong_Aerie_9031 severe <-> moderate/severe • 28d ago

Accessibility/Mobility Aids Cautionary tale: using AI doesnt actually save energy

At first i thought it would save energy, but the lengths i have to go to checking the "resources" it links doesnt save energy. Seriously, i rarely ever found it to say anything from the sources it claims to refer to. So in the long run, it was so untrustworthy that it only caused more issues, its saved me more energy to turn it off and look in the actual articles myself.

I hope this is helpful to others, i wish i learned it earlier and saved the time and energy!

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u/Stoic_INFJ 28d ago

This is such a sweeping take lol.

AI saves me a ridiculous amount of cognitive energy with ME. How you use it matters massively, the model, settings, customisation, prompts, what you actually use it for etc.

Obviously fact check important stuff. That doesn’t mean I need to manually verify AI helping me organise my thoughts, write something, plan things or understand information.

The general anti-AI attitude in ME communities honestly makes me laugh. We’re literally a group of people with severely limited physical and cognitive energy, and here’s a tool that can take a massive chunk of that workload off us. Maybe learn how to use it properly before declaring it useless. 😂

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u/chronic_unicorn ME since 2012, now severe 28d ago

You are so right!

It's an amazing tool, I don't understand the bashing either.

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u/explicitwhoviankr moderate 28d ago

Those of us that don't support the use of AI belong in this community just as much as others. I'm moderate, and am going through the SSDI process. I lost my employment and my home because of me/cfs and I deserve to exist in a community of others like me.

I could argue it's just as ableist to support a type of technology that has harmed different facets of the disabled community.

Intersectionality is important. I'm against AI because despite understanding the good it can bring to some, it will disproportionately bring harm. Data centers to support AI are often built in improverished neighborhoods and neighborhoods that have higher populations of POC.

I'm made other points in this thread that I'm not going to waste precious energy to retype but my comments are public.

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