On the topic of alt text:
Being offered a chatGPT solution when the problem is that people need to put in effort, feels like asking for a sandwich and being served a bowl of dry dog food.
Like, yes technically this solves the problem, but I don't want it, and the fact that this is what you're offering and you feel so clever about it, speaks to a profound disrespect for me and my access needs.
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@pencilears
you are asking people to work for free and find it disrespectful if they dare use tools to make catering to your wishes less work for them.
@tyil i just read chatgpt as "AI" because most people use it that way. self hosted AI would be fine for this. probably even wouldn't require very much power. @pencilears
@bonifartius @tyil the accuracy isn't good enough yet, it produces errors that the people it needs to serve are mostly unable to catch.
@bonifartius Love that you've decided that posting is "working for free" if you don't care about producing accurate alt text then just don't alt text your images.
What I'm objecting to here is people producing fake accessibility, so they can pat themselves on the back for being a "good person" while serving trash to disabled people.
If you don't want to serve disabled people properly, just don't offer them services at all.
@pencilears
i don't serve anyone here. i don't operate a business. adding alt text is working for free so i don't add alt text. i'm here for my personal entertainment - if it makes someone else happy or someone deems my posts interesting that's great.
people who use AI to generate image descriptions try to cater to the "ALT TEXT OR DISABLED HATER" crowd. that using AI for this is wrong as well again proves that it's a losing game to play. it will never be enough.
@bonifartius if you don't alt text your images because it's too much work then I don't see how my original point applies to you at all.
@bonifartius@qoto.org @pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com I'm strongly against all the "#AI" bullshit being pushed hard, so my instinctive reaction with anything mentioning "let's just use chatgpt" is to be against it. However, automatically generated text to improve accessibility seems like a very good use-case. Technology should work for us, not the other way around.
I would be against using ChatGPT specifically, since there's very serious copyright and moral issues that go with using it, but a self-hosted free software LLM to handle this stuff would be a good idea in my opinion.