Samuel
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦Uh… I'm sure some people will not be happy about this just because "AI" 😬 (but sounds cool!)
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The Spooky Vastness of an Uncaring UniverseMaybe we can start using "machine learning" for legit and useful applications and "AI" for bullshit that's only use is to steal people's work in order to replace them. Since they've already done most of the work for us.
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Thomas FuchsNot really. AI can’t know the intent of the poster and what they want to communicate.
Alt text isn’t just a mechanical description of an image.
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Comfortably NumbWait - how do they fit this kind of model on a device? In order to describe any kind of image it has to be ginormous!
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rm [-r] liningerEvery person I’ve seen who actually needs the alt text is far less enthused.
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John R 🇨🇦🇬🇧Instead of baking a contextless AI-generated description into the alt text, wouldn't it be better to keep encouraging people to write proper descriptions of the image and instead build this into screenreaders to serve as an optional last resort for images without alt text?
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jackWoah! This’ll help for Bluesky for sure!
I never really added alt text to images in my posts on Twitter before I came to bluesky, people here wanted me to so I did, but that’s gonna be cool!
Wonder how it’ll play out on lower end devices? Assuming it’s not just OCR recognition 🤔
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saltwaterjoysReally? Instead of you speaking to people who need alt text, you'll just get the computer to do it (poorly). They can interact with the computer instead of with people? Wow. This is huge, but in an unsurprisingly AI shit way.
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C̶͚̃a̵̯͠s̸͌͜s̷̜̎ả̵̻n̵̥͑d̸̓ͅr̶̦̽a̵̛̠ Complex̸̗́What’s the Firefox logo? Asking for people who can’t see.
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HoppyChrisIt's the visual representation, or "logo" of the browser Firefox.
1C̶͚̃a̵̯͠s̸͌͜s̷̜̎ả̵̻n̵̥͑d̸̓ͅr̶̦̽a̵̛̠ Complex̸̗́It’s not a fox made of fire encircling a globe? Do you see the issue I’m driving at? The screencapped example description lacks texture and depth. Not everyone would know what it is merely by tagging it as Firefox’s logo, especially since it used to be a phoenix. This is a small issue here, sure,
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FrancisSo all their fiddling with AI stuff finally brings something both cool and useful to the table! Yes!
1 2 Comfortably NumbPeople badmouthing AI - and rightfully so, but bsky.app/profile/ygal...
Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly· 1 Jun 2024Also, if you're having problems writing description - this is probably the only good use case for AI.
Strife3025I dont understand, is writing alt text difficult for some people?
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shreyan (wise)Well, it's not like this is supposed to replace writing alt-text, just help viewers in cases where it wasn't added for whatever reason
2Strife3025You could just set it to only post with alt text in that case?
1shreyan (wise)This isn't for the writers, this is for the viewers, and it's not like the entire web has that toggle either
1Strife3025Ok sorry you've lost me, but thank you for trying to explain :)
1I'm curious if it'll add Alt text to images that don't need it, like element borders and other layout centric images, or blank pixels used for copy protection
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Adrian von GegerfeltNot actually useful from an accessibility perspective. Possible detrimental because people will rely more on this tool instead of writing good alt text.
Lizardguy | check pinned postHugely disappointing. I thought Firefox was supposed to get away from this shit. What is left for the guy who rightly hates ai?
MichaelSee, this is a good use of AI.
Patchouli WoollahraA valid use for AI. But as always, review the alt text before publishing if you can.
Derek Writes StuffThis is finally someone using AI to do something useful
pookhogwhy?!
pdrora coulpe days ago I was thinking about how useful would be a extension like this. and nos they'll launch as a feature 🤯
madsabaothdid mozilla just beat google to the punch? this is extremely useful