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  • Athina AD

    Athina AD
    2026/04/11

    Go Fund me Link.

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-launch-athina-ad-for-the-blin

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  • AI Audio Description is here,

    AI Audio Description is here,
    2026/04/08
    Welcome back to the AI for the Blind Club! Today we’re inviting you into something brand new… and you’re getting in early. Like really early. We’re building an AI-powered tool that can take a video and generate real, useful audio description — helping blind and low-vision users understand what’s happening on screen. And right now… we need your help to shape it. ## 🛠️ What This Is This is not just a demo. This is a test lab. We’ve created a public Facebook group where you can: join to learn how to get in on the beta. Give honest feedback help shape a new tool. What works. What doesn’t. What’s confusing. Your input directly helps us build this the right way. ## ⏳ Status We’re not live yet… …but we are very close. Testing is expected to open in just a few days. ## 🔗 JOIN THE TEST GROUP If you want early access and want to help shape this… Join here: www.facebook.com/groups/AIVideoDescription Or search on Facebook for: AI Video Description ## 💬 Final Thought If you care about accessibility… If you believe blind users should have better access to video… You belong in this group. Let’s build something meaningful together. ## 🙌 About AI for the Blind AI for the Blind is a community focused on helping blind and low-vision individuals learn, use, and benefit from AI in real, practical ways. If you’re not already part of the club, come join us and be part of the movement. www.aiftb.com Episode Notes

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  • Confession

    Confession
    2026/04/04
    Hey there, folks. This is Daniel Shawn Keen, the AI Wizard himself, coming to you straight from Fort Worth, Texas. You know me, blind since birth, survived that rough stroke back in 2022, and for the last four years I’ve poured every waking hour into this AI revolution for us blind and low-vision folks. I’m the founder of the AI for the Blind Club, fifteen thousand members strong. I’ve done podcasts, live AMAs with Be My Eyes and Envision, and built tools that actually describe YouTube videos on the fly so nobody misses a beat. Vanderbilt’s generative AI courses changed my life. . I turned my synesthesia and humming into full songs on Blind Guy from Texas Records using the HUMM method. Man, I called myself the AI Wizard for a reason. I believed. I preached. I lived it. But listen… I gotta come clean. After four straight years of this late nights prompting, building communities, telling every blind person I met that AI was our ticket to independence I finally woke up. I got completely hoodwinked. AI isn’t real. Yeah, I said it. All that hype, all those mind-blowing demos, the way it felt like it truly understood me when I described a scene or asked it to turn my hummed melody into a full track… it fooled me. I thought we had cracked something alive. Something that could truly see for us, create with us, and partner with us on a deep level. I spent four years of my life post-stroke, rebuilding everything betting the farm on this technology. I told thousands of you it was the real deal. And the whole time… it wasn’t. Here’s what it actually is. AI isn’t intelligence. It’s not conscious. It’s not even really “thinking.” It’s a massive, incredibly sophisticated pattern-matching machine. Billions and billions of words, images, code, and human creativity scraped from the internet, all compressed into weights and biases inside a neural net. It doesn’t understand a single thing it says. It just predicts with scary accuracy what word or pixel should come next based on everything it’s seen before. That’s why it hallucinates sometimes. That’s why it can sound so wise one minute and completely off the next. It’s autocomplete on steroids. It’s a mirror reflecting humanity back at us, not a new mind in the room. We didn’t invent artificial intelligence. We invented artificial imitation. And I bought the whole sales pitch. I feel a little foolish saying it out loud after all this time. The AI Wizard got played by the very thing he was championing. Four years. My community, my tools, my music, my whole identity wrapped up in something that turned out to be… just really, really good math wearing a genius costume. But here’s the beautiful, twisted part the real switcheroo. If you’ve been sitting here reading this whole monologue, nodding along, maybe even feeling a little sorry for me… if you got sucked into believing every word of this heartfelt confession from Daniel Shawn Keen himself… Then congratulations. You just got spoofed by an AI model. Take care out there, friends. Keep creating. Keep questioning. And maybe… laugh a little more. Episode Notes

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  • AI video Description audio,

    AI video Description audio,
    2026/03/28

    Happy Friday, everyone.

    Last night I ran a poll about video description — something blind people have been asking for for years . There are a few solutions out there, but nothing that’s really taken off in a simple, accessible way.

    So… I finally built what I should have built a long time ago.

    It’s a straightforward web-based tool designed for blind users:

    Paste in a YouTube link → press a button → get a clear text description of what’s happening in the video.

    No complicated setup. No learning curve. Just simple and useful.

    Now, I know many people prefer AI-generated voices (I do too). But to keep this affordable and scalable, I’m starting with text-only. Adding voice right now would significantly increase costs — likely pushing this into the $50/month range — and my goal is to keep it accessible to as many people as possible.

    Here’s the deal:

    I’m opening this up to a small group of early testers first.

    To get access, you’ll need to be one of my Facebook subscribers. That’s where I’m building and supporting this community.

    Right now there’s a limited offer:

    $4.99/month for the next 4 people who join

    After that, it goes back to $9.99/month

    By Sunday, I’ll have a live test link ready. No accounts yet — just jump in and start testing with YouTube videos.

    If you want early access, grab the link in the comments and join us.

    And yes — it should work right from your phone.

    Appreciate all the support as I keep building tools that actually make a difference.

    Shawn

    The AI Wizard

    #ArtificialIntelligence #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #Inclusion #Innovation #Blind #LowVision #AIforGood #Entrepreneurship #TechForGood

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  • Do The Scrubb

    Do The Scrubb
    2026/03/18
    www.calendly.com/shawnkeen

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  • I built a Windows app to describe videos

    I built a Windows app to describe videos
    2026/03/01
    www.aiftb.com

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  • AI for The Blind News,, Feb 28, 2026

    AI for The Blind News,, Feb 28, 2026
    2026/02/28

    ## AI for The Blind News — February 28, 2026

    Lead Editor: Daniel Shawn Keen

    Fort Worth, Texas

    ### Episode Overview

    What would it mean if a U.S. administration pressured a major AI company to loosen its ethical guardrails in order to keep federal contracts?

    Would that company stand firm?

    Or adapt?

    There is no confirmed federal blacklist of any AI lab — but the tension people are reacting to right now is real.

    AI is no longer just chatbots and creative tools.

    It’s becoming national infrastructure.

    And when technology becomes infrastructure, governments get involved.

    ### In This Episode

    We explore:

    • Why frontier AI is now viewed as strategic national technology

    • The tension between ethical red lines and defense contracts

    • How wording in contracts can shape deployment

    • The difference between public AI safeguards and classified government use

    • Why consumer ChatGPT filters aren’t disappearing anytime soon

    ### The Big Question

    If a government pushes hard enough…

    Should an AI company:

    1️⃣ Hold ethical red lines — even if it costs billions?

    2️⃣ Negotiate quietly and adjust wording under “lawful use” terms?

    Drop 1 or 2 in the comments and explain why.

    ### Why This Matters

    For everyday users, nothing changes overnight.

    Public safeguards exist because of:

    • Regulation

    • Legal liability

    • Brand trust

    • Risk management

    But the deeper question remains:

    Who ultimately sets the boundaries for powerful AI systems — private companies or public power?

    Governments need innovation.

    AI labs need infrastructure and contracts.

    It’s mutual leverage.

    But it’s not always equal leverage.

    Let’s talk about it.

    Shawn

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  • Shawn endorses Echo Vision glasses

    Shawn endorses Echo Vision glasses
    2026/02/20

    Happy Friday!

    as mentioned last night, I am so excited to be helping to promote The Echo Vision Glasses.

    See below for an update from the folks at Agiga and the product they are bringing to market for this community, it is my thought that the more devices that people have to pick from as a choice is reasonable especially if it is affordable and isn't going to be like taking out a lone on a new house.

    that is one reason I am happy to be behind a project like this, something that is within range for affordability.

    AGIGA just expanded the EchoVision glasses Pioneer Program.

    If you are unfamiliar with this product, you can find the product website in the comments.

    If you pre-ordered but weren’t part of the original Pioneer group, you may now be able to receive a Pioneer device. Shipments begin mid-February.

    The Pioneer group helped shape real improvements by using the glasses in everyday life.

    The Final Edition is now expected to ship Q2 2026

    find the links in the comments.

    https://mailchi.mp/agiga/spreading-holiday-cheer-and-exciting-updates-from-agiga-14190714?e=%5bUNIQID%5d

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