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The two problems I see with the AI-screen-reader approach is wastefulness and confabulations. It is one thing to have to deal with your screen reader not reading something. However, it is quite a different thing having to hope that your screen reader doesn't outright lie to you. And they do. I recently had BeMyEyes (uses OpenAI vision model) describe an iOS screenshot to me. It imagined an error which definitely was not on-screen. I cliamed I have a storage full warning, for a 256GB iPhone. Thing is, storage is not full, and the iPhone has 128GB. I really dont want such technology to be used for screen reading, its bad at best, and dangerous at worst.


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