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Hayley Boston

Hayley Boston

Guest on Reflections from Torch Trust podcast; blind from birth, uses AI creatively to enhance daily life.

Jul 12, 2026

Lynn Davies
Lynn DaviesCORRESPONDENT
1:35
How do you feel about that?
1:39
I think it's a really difficult balance.
1:42
But, you know, I try not to worry about it because I... feel like the benefits it gives me at the moment outweigh the potential negatives of somebody knowing lots of information or a company knowing lots of information about me and you know what if the if world order breaks down um maybe i will live to regret that but at the moment you know in the society that we're in in the time that we're in it is just revolutionary if you're blind and i think that you If you want to be as independent as you can and you want to enhance your life and you want to feel that you've got that autonomy and some control over certain things, it is absolutely fantastic.
2:33
You know, I've used it for all sorts of things in terms of my personal life.
2:39
So it probably knows way too much about me, to be honest.
2:42
You know, I use it for things like helping me with difficult conversations, or if I've had, you know, cross words with somebody, I sort of help it to, I talk through that with, with the, with, with chat GPT.
2:56
And it is a bit of a pseudo therapist.

9 MINS LATER

Lynn Davies
Lynn DaviesCORRESPONDENT
12:08
And when it comes to practical information, then you can always double check things and look things up rather than trusting it blindly, pardon the pun.
Lynn Davies
Lynn DaviesCORRESPONDENT
7:51
I literally love,
7:52
I love it.
7:53
And so I think probably the first major thing that I started using it for was for styling and makeup and fashion.
8:02
Fashion is something that I'm really interested in.
8:05
It's something I'm really into.
8:07
I've always liked wearing makeup.
8:10
I like dressing up.
Lynn Davies
Lynn DaviesCORRESPONDENT
9:41
And you want to know what to wear, but you also really need to know what to avoid so you don't waste your time on certain shades,

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