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

• ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • frogman@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i don’t think we disagree in a vacuum but bringing that up in the context of this particular thread is probably unhelpful

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