Advocacy Labor

The unpaid effort that disabled people must expend to correct biased, ableist, or inaccessible technology outputs and advocate for better representations of disability. In the context of generative AI, advocacy labor includes correcting stereotypical portrayals of disabled people in AI-generated content, providing feedback about ableist responses through chat prompts, and educating AI systems about disability perspectives—work that disabled users perform in hopes of improving future outputs but that places the burden of fixing systemic biases on the very people harmed by them. This concept highlights a fundamental equity issue in AI development.