🪨 (@Varpie)

Eric Eggert @yatil@yatil.social

“Wow, AI can now describe images!” == “Wow, image interpretation algorithms have now stolen enough data from people who have always cared about alternative text, so that I can add mediocre descriptions to pretend to care.”

(Edit: It’s totally good that this technology exists for users when no alternative text exists. It’s problematic when it’s used in lieu of writing proper alternative text in the first place.)

#a11y #accessibility

🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist

@yatil I find that it's also good as a template for writing alt text. When it's a picture of a text-based post, having all the text already written saves good time (even though we don't need the fancy stuff to do that), now we just have to proof read it and add the context.