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@zersiax but do we really want to give some who can’t be bothered, a check box that generates confusing, shallow and often innacurate alt text that would be more aggravating than not having any alt text at all?

This is not an “ai sucks” comment with not foundation. Artists have been using AI alt text on Instagram for a while now and it is truly awful.

Like 3 June at 20:29 | Wall-to-wall | Open on strangeobject.space

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Florian

@james I don't know, honestly :) I think it depends on the image.
Chrome and Edge have had this feature for a while now, sans LLM, and really the only time that is useful is when there's text in an image, which gets OCR'ed ...relatively ... well. So in that sense I can see it; PDFs often are pictures of text and this might bridge that divide. For practically any other purpose though ...no, probably not :)

3 June at 20:31 | Open on cupoftea.social

james

@zersiax mastodon web and some Fediverse clients like Ivory already have that OCR, yet I still see tonnes of image posts of text that do not bother to use it.

Which is why I’m like “please don’t just launch this and expect people to check what comes out, otherwise you’ve just made experience a special sort of crap”

😬

3 June at 20:34 | Open on strangeobject.space

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