True, but if it genuinely works really well then does it really matter? Seems like the change would be a net positive.
Comment on Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"
brie@beehaw.org 3 months agoOn 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.
lud@lemm.ee 3 months ago
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Sounds like proton and linux gaming
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)