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Babe another pointless Al just dropped
This is actually one of the few cases where it makes sense. Its for alt-text for people who browse with TTS
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.
"I don't need Alt text so it must be useless"
it's not pointless; it's amazing for accessibility, especially in pdfs.
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
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.
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
i don't think we disagree in a vacuum but bringing that up in the context of this particular thread is probably unhelpful
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
Think AI is pointless when it doesn't apply to you?
If you had a visual disability you would certainly think otherwise.
Tell me you don't add alt text to your posts without telling me :p