this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
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use free software to caption your images https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
i dont understand how ai would be useful for that
If you need to do them in bulk it can give you a good start. I'm as against AI replacing humans as anyone, but we have to be clear eyed about what it's capabilities are.
Maybe I was unclear: I need to write alt-texts for images. I currently use a web service for generating those. Drag a JPEG in, it spits out a text string. Yeah, I know, I could just open every image in a giant big viewer and type what I see, but having AI assisting it takes maybe 15 minutes out of the workflow, total. Even with the mistakes it makes. And it makes a lot.
Oh
To me a "caption" is text that is part of the image, not alt text.
That clears it up
Actual sensible use of AI
The AI is creating the captions.