Hi!
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?
True and one sentence written by a human who understands the image is better than twenty sentences by a word prediction machine.
No matter how good human written descriptions are, people just won’t do them. So having a automated system is much more preferable.
You do realize that would lead to people (humans) doing the descriptions even less?
I would argue that it might even increase the number of descriptions if they’re auto generated. People would find it easier to fix small issues than write a whole one from scratch.
It would increase the number of bad descriptions and desincentivize people to add good descriptions or (depending on the interface/permissions; you are assuming I could just manually go and fix someone else’s alt-info in their image) submit fixes and corrections. And it would kill the environment even more anyway.
Sure. I don’t care enough to argue. I’m not going to be the one who implements this system anyway, lol.
I know what you’re saying but I truly think for most people it’s simply that they’re overthinking it. They think every single thing needs to be in the description, with references explained and sourced and whatnot. That does sound exhausting. And I have written a handful of descriptions like that for pictures where I thought the details were interesting enough to justify the effort. But really, a simple “The thirteenth Doctor and Rose Tyler embracing and deeply kissing” is already very sufficient in most cases (add “standing on an asteroid in front of a field of glittering stars - digital colour painting” if you have the spoons). So imho it’s better to educate them and encourage short, concise descriptions than to give in to the slop.
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.