People Who Use the Disabled as an Excuse are Disgusting

Neurodivergent people: famously unskilled with the inner workings of technology

I think there's a distinction that's not clearly being drawn in the OP. Descriptive ML has been a huge boon for the disabled. Optical Character Recognition that can screen-read text from an image and Optical Image Recognition that can pick out objects and indicate their presence (and often distance) have changed lives for blind & vision-impaired users. As has Sound Recognition that can distinguish the sounds of water running, or alarms blaring, for deaf & hard-of-hearing users.

Meanwhile, Generative ML (I refuse to call something that shows no signs of it "intelligent") has absolutely made disabled lives more difficult in many/most cases. A lot of independent artists that are commissionable are precluded from the regularity of typical employment, having sporadic issues that mean that choosing their own hours suits much better. It goes the same for writers as well.

I think an important thing to note is that, at least at point of usage, the first category is far less resource-intensive and can be run locally on low-powered devices. I have an ESP32-Cam that can run local object recognition at 5-10W.