Comment on The fact that users are encouraged to include text descriptions with media content makes it perfect training data for AI.

Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• tourist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also, the alt texts vary in descriptiveness for that exact purpose. They’re meant to be useful for humans, not for training data.

  What would a blind person rather have as the alt text:

  (there are no photos here, for the blind people listening)

  A cute Alsatian puppy looking into the camera with a dog toy in its mouth

  A 14 week old black/brown dog sitting on a tiled floor with a synthetic-rubber cuboid-cylindrical-shaped, blue-green-gradient chew toy in its mouth with its eyes and noises poised at a 30° angle towards the photographer’s origin. Each tile on the floor is approximately 1.47m^2 and are a pearlescent shade of off-white. There is an unidentifiable black speck on the first tile in the top left quadrant of the image. The cameraman’s fat finger is covering 1.97% of the bottom right quadrant. Focal length is set to 100mm. Exposure settings appear to be increased. The dog’s genitals are not visible.

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• ethaver@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  and I actually like that one particular use-case of llms and image analyzing ai because less required human interaction gives the blind user more independence. The remaining issue of corporatization and private ownership of something that should be a publicly owned resource (as with many other assistive technologies) is a society-wide issue and framing it as a futurist vs Luddite discussion is a powerful misdirection.

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