As someone who doesn't have adhd/autism, I see this as one of those legitimate uses of AI. Because lots of people struggle to make mails/texts to be readable.
Other is summaries the context of large texts/data sheets.
Claude has the ability to accept uploads of PDFs and then answer questions about them. I just recently uploaded a PDF of a complex state tax law that had deleted portions and addendums and all kinds of stuff over 36 pages of legalese, and after a few test questions to see if Claude was able to do what I wanted, I started asking questions and getting answers (with references) for important things I needed to know about what my rights were, and what I could and couldn't do.
I never could have figured that out just reading through those pages.
@Melatonin Yeah, I usually run into people who either assume everything is a hallucination or don't understand that hallucinations happen and are unavoidable. Even less people even understand why or how they happen (ie. if you ask a question about anything not in the provided info, it'll most likely hallucinate as if the answer was there)
This is literally how I’m getting my directors to stop pestering me about how complex my shit is. Dumbing it down and translating my messages for them. Works wonders.
I've spent 2 months transcribing an entire poorly written text book into a Google doc. I'm now taking that transcription and having chat gpt rewrite it all for readability. All so I can maybe pass certification exam.
The problem is less with us and more with academia having developed an highly oppressive way of writing things. But from my perspective it's just sloppy unreadable garbage.
AI has been great I can just give It the promt "make this concise and readable using only common language" and it will take entire chapters down to simple point form lists for me.
I haven't had a reason to use it properly yet, just testing, but it looks great. It's not perfect though. I asked it for a way to check what programs I have installed on Windows because I want to switch to Linux, and its answer was that I should make a list of the installed programs >.<
I sometimes use AI as a proofreader. Asking if the text is well structured and how I can improve it. I prefer to rework it by myself, but it’s nice to be able to get a feedback on a report you are writing before sending it.
But my main use is to ask « common sense » things or fill my lack of basic knowledge. For example, I was struggling for buying some honey at a store because they were 3 kinds of honey and I had no way to know which one to buy (it was a bigger a store than the one I usually go to). I had a short conversation with an AI to determine which one was the best for me. It calmed me down and helped me to make the right choice (this is the kind of situation that makes me very anxious).
It’s also very good to learn or understand foreign language expressions. English is not my native language, so it’s nice to be able to ask an AI about a joke characters are telling in a RPG when the game has not been translated.
I think the next step for me will be to give an AI the ebook I am reading, and ask it questions about things I forgot or did not understand correctly while reading it (I don’t want a summary of the whole book because I don’t want to be spoiled).
I think it’s a very useful tool, and I believe it could make a big difference for autistic people as well in some cases.
I've found that LLMs spit things out that read like bad high school essays. I'm not sure they're succeeding at sounding allistic at all. Just weirdly repetative in the way a structured high school essay is.
I dont yet but I will probably use a locally hosted, open source AI to do this at some point. I‘m self employed and need to remove barriers that arent fixed (moral code for example is fixed for me).
I'm actually still coping with the fact that I can use AI for work. I hate it. It feels like cheating and I learn little from using it vs. figuring the thing out myself, but this is a smart use.
@finkrat @Melatonin if you read it's output and learn nothing then you've only saved yourself time, if you don't understand and learn nothing, then you shouldn't use it because you can't vouch for it
I don't have autism, but I still use ai to write out boring corpo stuff sometimes. Like out of office replies and sometimes to add some structure to an argument I've typed out hurriedly etc
@Emerald @Melatonin honestly it's just that we have a very different social style in general.
Allistic social patterns are focused heavily on social hierarchy and group dynamics, which we couldn't care less about (see identity theory of autism, "group/organization/association based identity vs values based identity".
As far as allistics are concerned we tend to be "overly blunt", "too matter of fact", "condescending", etc etc.... mostly because we don't include all the subtle nods to social standings and hierarchy in our communication.
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in reply to Melatonin • • •As someone who doesn't have adhd/autism, I see this as one of those legitimate uses of AI. Because lots of people struggle to make mails/texts to be readable.
Other is summaries the context of large texts/data sheets.
Melatonin
in reply to plactagonic • • •Claude has the ability to accept uploads of PDFs and then answer questions about them. I just recently uploaded a PDF of a complex state tax law that had deleted portions and addendums and all kinds of stuff over 36 pages of legalese, and after a few test questions to see if Claude was able to do what I wanted, I started asking questions and getting answers (with references) for important things I needed to know about what my rights were, and what I could and couldn't do.
I never could have figured that out just reading through those pages.
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in reply to Shiri Bailem • • •That's a great reminder for everyone!
I never trust AI. Or rather, trust but verify. In the case of a PDF I ask for section, page number, or quote. Always get the reference.
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in reply to Melatonin • • •I've spent 2 months transcribing an entire poorly written text book into a Google doc. I'm now taking that transcription and having chat gpt rewrite it all for readability. All so I can maybe pass certification exam.
The problem is less with us and more with academia having developed an highly oppressive way of writing things. But from my perspective it's just sloppy unreadable garbage.
AI has been great I can just give It the promt "make this concise and readable using only common language" and it will take entire chapters down to simple point form lists for me.
I also use goblin tools for writing.
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in reply to Melatonin • • •I sometimes use AI as a proofreader. Asking if the text is well structured and how I can improve it. I prefer to rework it by myself, but it’s nice to be able to get a feedback on a report you are writing before sending it.
But my main use is to ask « common sense » things or fill my lack of basic knowledge. For example, I was struggling for buying some honey at a store because they were 3 kinds of honey and I had no way to know which one to buy (it was a bigger a store than the one I usually go to). I had a short conversation with an AI to determine which one was the best for me. It calmed me down and helped me to make the right choice (this is the kind of situation that makes me very anxious).
It’s also very good to learn or understand foreign language expressions. English is not my native language, so it’s nice to be able to ask an AI about a joke characters are telling in a RPG when the game has not been translated.
I think the next step for me will be to give an AI the ebook I am reading, and ask it questions about things I forgot or did not understand correctly while reading it (I don’t want a summary of the whole book because I don’t want to be spoiled).
I think it’s a very useful tool, and I believe it could make a big difference for autistic people as well in some cases.
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in reply to Emerald • •@Emerald @Melatonin honestly it's just that we have a very different social style in general.
Allistic social patterns are focused heavily on social hierarchy and group dynamics, which we couldn't care less about (see identity theory of autism, "group/organization/association based identity vs values based identity".
As far as allistics are concerned we tend to be "overly blunt", "too matter of fact", "condescending", etc etc.... mostly because we don't include all the subtle nods to social standings and hierarchy in our communication.
Autism reshared this.