I don’t particularly use generative IAs that create Alt Text from images, but I’ve seen a lot of people who do use them and I think that’s the only use of AI from which I can’t draw anything negative.
The fact is that there are many people who do not know how to make a good Alt Text, and therefore either do not put them or put one that is only the word “photo/image”, which is much worse.
I think if AI had started there, as a tool to help accessibility, it wouldn’t have the stigma it has today.
But of course, there are not enough blind people in the world from whom to get absurdly, ridiculously, vulgarly obscene amounts of profit…
Generative AI can have a lot of great uses to detect and prevent unethical content online. Particularly CSAM. Some forms of it are already used to protect some of your favourite lemmy instances.
That’s not really generative AI
Machine vision is very similar tech
It’s been helpful in summarizing YouTube transcripts for the video alt text
Do you check it every single time to make sure it is accurate?
I eyeball it. A few times I was surprised and had to double check the video and found a few segments sponsorblock had skipped.
(edit: I kind of regret posting this image for reasons described below, but I’ll leave it up for context.)
Disabled people are not going to all agree on everything, especially when they are pretty diverse. Some will like gen ai, and some will not.
I think that in this context it does not apply because the person in the image is talking about people who use accessibility as an excuse to keep asking ChatGPT to do their homework, and I in particular refer to the legitimate use of AI solely and exclusively to facilitate accessibility. I could give as an example the Bots on Mastodon that, if you follow them, when you upload an image without Alt Text, they respond to the Toot with a detailed description of the image.
This is patently incorrect. Using it to identify and remove NSFL content, which would otherwise require humans to be psychologically tortured in order to review, is also an ethical use-case.
I didn’t know that was a thing! Thanks for inform me!
