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Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" (hacks.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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New accessibility feature coming to Firefox, an "AI powered" alt-text generator.

"Starting in Firefox 130, we will automatically generate an alt text and let the user validate it. So every time an image is added, we get an array of pixels we pass to the ML engine and a few seconds after, we get a string corresponding to a description of this image (see the code).

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Our alt text generator is far from perfect, but we want to take an iterative approach and improve it in the open.

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We are currently working on improving the image-to-text datasets and model with what we’ve described in this blog post..."

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Now i want this standalone in a commandline binary, take an image and give me a single phrase description (gut feeling says this already exists but depending on Teh Cloudz and OpenAI, not fully local on-device for non-GPU-powered computers)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Ollama + llava-llama3

You now just need a cli wrapper interact with the ollama api

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes I was just writing that, I would love to see more integrations that can talk against ollama.

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