Comment on Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 months ago
Overall see nothing wrong with this. Encourages users to support alt-text more, which we should be doing for our disabled friends anyway. I really like the confirmation before applying.
brie@beehaw.org 3 months ago
On the one hand, having an AI generated alt-text on the client side would be much better than not having any alt-text at all. On the other hand, the pessemist in me thinks that if it becomes widely available, website makers will feel less of a need to add proper alt-text to their content.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 months ago
A more optimistic way of looking at it is that this tool makes people more interested in alt-text in general, meaning more tools are developed to make use of it, meaning more web devs bother with it in the first place (either using this tool or manually)
lud@lemm.ee 3 months ago
True, but if it genuinely works really well then does it really matter? Seems like the change would be a net positive.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Sounds like proton and linux gaming