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Mozilla rolls out first AI features in Firefox Nightly, and theyre actually useful. (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 month ago by Blisterexe to c/[email protected]

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Tldr: Theyre adding an opt-in alt text generation for blind people and an opt-in ai chat sidebar where you can choose the model used (includes self-hosted ones)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because good alt text needs to be highly context dependant, so you can't automate it. The better alternatives we have right now are crowd-sourced alt text sites, where volunteers may generate descriptions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's plenty of situations where even a contextless generated alt-text is a huge improvement on no alt-text at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You should better read what the blind community thinks about it instead of making blanket assumptions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think you have a very optimistic view on how far crowd sourcing this is going to take us.

BTW, you think web developers aren't already using editors that use AI to generate alt text automatically? AI alt text is going to be everywhere regardless.

Also I'm not saying that's a good thing. It's just an inevitable thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Also I’m not saying that’s a good thing. It’s just an inevitable thing.

Then why respond when I was mentioning its usefulness and that the blind community was not heard by the tech bros.