While I really enjoy seeing many of my fellow man being accommodating to people with disabilities. I find manually transcribing every image I post to be very tiring.

I thought that I could at least use some sort of AI to help with image transcripts, tho, that could probably be better used by the actual person with the disability.

So thats the question, should I skip the transcribing of an image or let an AI do it?

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 22 points 1 day ago (10 children)

If you can get an AI to produce an actually useful description, that would be extremely interesting. However, AIs don't know what's important about an image and will fill up the description with useless information, effectively spam for the person that needs a description.

Write just a sentence, describe the thing that is important, while keeping in mind why you're even posting the image, and it's going to take less time than asking the AI.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

For those that need it, any description is better than none.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

True and one sentence written by a human who understands the image is better than twenty sentences by a word prediction machine.

[–] x74sys@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, apart from the fact that I imagine that people who need alt text don’t appreciate LLM output. It‘s very boring. It’s either extremely technical and ice-cold or so cringe that you have to stop reading. Just what I think.

At least for me, if I realize that I’m reading an AI blog article or AI generated text in some other form, I don’t read it.

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