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Affinity Workshop: Global South AI

Brush for the blind: Ecosystem for visually blind to create artworks for monetary gain

Yashaswini Viswanath · Pavitra T · Dr Meenakshi S

Keywords: [ LLMs ] [ ai for social good ] [ Generative AI ]

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presentation: Global South AI
Mon 11 Dec 9 a.m. PST — noon PST

Abstract:

Generative AI is good with generating artworks using simple prompts on one word length. This makes it a good candidate for someone who is visually impaired to make a prompt using voice and this voice can be converted and fed as text to Stable Diffusion to get images. Yes, more complicated prompts are possible but here we are lookin gat someone who has not got a chnace to see the world. There is one more school of thought that says those who are visually impaired have a very good imaginative power. In these cases we can employ AI to generate images which can put up for sale as a downloadbale entity on internet or hard copy at their school. They can sell these for fund collections for school welfare. This opens up avenues for the Visually Challenged. Yes, they camnt see what they create, but it is a small aid in forming avenues of donation for the blind school. This needs a website where the artworks can be displyed for download. But most importantly it requires a software translator which can understand the native mother toungue (a Global South language) and convert the prompt to English. Secondly it need to have a braille interface to speak to the Visually chanllenged participant if they are having hearing impairment. At the outset it looks very simple, type a prompt, get an art, sell it but there are a lot more challenges involved if the visually challenged wants to make more complicated versions or art with detailed prompts. Also there raises a possibility if the creatoris wanting to see the created art. A 3D pin device which using haptic technology be used to make the art alive in 3D so that they can touch and feel.NeurIPS is a global stage and this abstract can be considered successful if people come together for a better tomorrow and give AI brushes for the blind

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