Los peligros de la inteligencia artificial para la accesibilidad web

En Five accessibility bugs GitHub Copilot offers to create explican los peligros de confiar en la inteligencia artificial en cuanto a la accesibilidad de una página web:

I like GitHub Copilot, at least for the narrow range of purposes I mentioned earlier. At the time I'm writing this up, there have been announcements about the next version of Copilot. Perhaps the next version will be fix some of these issues.

The danger here is that developers accept code suggestions, assuming that they're good. The 'wisdom of the crowd' could suggest that code based on millions of lines of code won't contain bugs. As demonstrated, this is not true.

Filtering the output, as it currently does to remove "offensive output", is possible. That probably wouldn't work better than current automatic accessibility testing and linting. So it would be an improvement, but not an absolute fix.

In my opinion, the responsibility always rests with the developer using the tool.

You shouldn't accept code suggestions from GitHub Copilot if you don't understand them. If you're expecting a certain type of suggestion, and you get one with extra attributes, you need to look them up. Don't use the code until you understand what every part of it does.

This could have a positive side. Maybe. It's possible that Copilot suggests accessibility considerations that people would otherwise have missed. Making people consider how to incorporate accessibility into their work normalizes it.

Adrian Roselli tampoco confía mucho en la inteligencia artificial para resolver los problemas de accesibilidad. En  No, ‘AI’ Will Not Fix Accessibility explica:

Large language models are habitual liars. Meanwhile, automated image descriptions aren’t much better. To give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps these tools simply lack context.

As image tools get better at describing every detail of a picture, as language models do a better job of conveying an emoji-laden tweet in actual words, they are still not the authors of that content. They have no sense of why it was created. They cannot tell you that a series of vertical lines is meant to signify a wall in a meme.