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Images of text make training AI more expensive (fedia.io)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/fuck_ai

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Because the AI has to do the work of translating the image to text before deciding what to do with it

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wait, we have this on Lemmy too. Is Lemmy an AI-wielding corporate fuckfest as well?

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 week ago

No, people just want to help out the vision impaired. Hail corporate, I guess?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I think it’s the decent thing to do, ever since the early days of alt in html. I do hope it’s useful to humans, but it’s probably also true that AI is vacuuming it all up as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is my one "insane belief that I'm positive will be proven true in a few years" and I'm sticking to it.

Everyone's got one 😂

How many times have you seen a comment "Thanks for the transcript!"? I think I've seen one once

Blind folk aren't reading memes, they're listening to podcasts and audiobooks. Think about it. A transcribed meme isn't funny in the slightest so what would be the point?

The ai companies got themselves a ton of free labour

I'm not going to say "die on this hill" because it's more of a mountain but yeah