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

submitted 2 months 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] -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He's not blind! What's he supposed to do with such a dumb feature?? /s

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

Because good alt text needs a lot of context, so it must be done by humans for humans at our current state of tech,

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

The old 'let perfection be the enemy of good' argument..

Surely this is a step in the right direction?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

It's not, listen to the blind community instead of making assumptions (I mentioned that in my first comment).