crossposted from https://wandering.shop/@meredithw/113983437672884349
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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I found that even when you can see the image, alt-text often helps significantly with understanding it. e.g. by calling a character or place by name or saying what kind of action is being done.
The one thing I'm uneasy about with these extremely detailed alt-text descriptions is that it seems like a treasure trove of training data for AI. The main thing holding back image generation is access to well-labelled images. I know it's against ToS to scrape them but that doesn't mean companies can't, just that they shouldn't. Between here and mastadon/etc there's a decent number of very well-labelled images.
The AI ship has already sailed. No need to harm real humans because somebody might train an AI on your data.