“I don’t need Alt text so it must be useless”
Comment on Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Babe another pointless Al just dropped
Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 months ago
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
it’s not pointless; it’s amazing for accessibility, especially in pdfs.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Well I do agree it’ll be useful for people who need it, but for most people it’s pretty pointless and I hope at least they don’t enable it by default just like Windoze sticky key because ai use a lot of system resources for a little benefits especially with self hosted ai
frogman@beehaw.org 4 months ago
beehaw is a safe-space, we shouldnt villify the experiences/needs of people who need alt-text. this could be game changing for people who need it.
bl4kers@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Alternatively, it could be very frustrating for people who need it. Computer-generated translations are often very bad compared to human ones, and image recognition adds another layer of complexity that will very likely lack nuance. It could create a false sense of accessibility with bad alt-text, and could make it more difficult to spot real alt-text if it isn’t being tagged or labeled as AI generated
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Its for blind people, it let’s them know what is in images using a screen reader, just because it doesn’t apply to you doesn’t mean it’s useless
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Think AI is pointless when it doesn’t apply to you?
Zworf@beehaw.org 4 months ago
If you had a visual disability you would certainly think otherwise.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Tell me you don’t add alt text to your posts without telling me :p
InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 4 months ago
This is actually one of the few cases where it makes sense. Its for alt-text for people who browse with TTS
rho50@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Yeah, this is actually a pretty great application for AI. It’s local, privacy-preserving and genuinely useful for an underserved demographic.
One of the most wholesome and actually useful applications for LLMs/CLIP that I’ve seen.