Comment on Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• InfiniWheel@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is actually one of the few cases where it makes sense. Its for alt-text for people who browse with TTS

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  • rho50@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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• Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I don’t need Alt text so it must be useless”

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s not pointless; it’s amazing for accessibility, especially in pdfs.

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  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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    • frogman@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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      • bl4kers@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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• Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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• SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Think AI is pointless when it doesn’t apply to you?

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• Zworf@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you had a visual disability you would certainly think otherwise.

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tell me you don’t add alt text to your posts without telling me :p

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