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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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[–] NateNate60 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It also makes content inaccessible to the blind who use screen readers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, maybe they should learn how to read. Jeez.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You also seem nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you.
Hopefully someday you can take a joke.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

So start normalizing using ffmpeg to type in whatever you want to say, and render it as a video with just static text on white background to make it even more expensive?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just insert motherducker random profanity in your text.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 week ago

I shit like the way you think-fuck.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Which is why the AI companies surreptitiously convinced gullible people that they had to transcribe all their memes, jokes, comics etc "to help near-sighted people and boost inclusiveness" or whatever and the daft cunts were so desperate to feel morally superior they fell for it hook, line and sinker

[–] [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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I sincerely hope you never go blind. Or you know what, I hope you have to deal with the inconveniences you’re trumpeting to let you feel how it really is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Partially sighted, and it's my biggest fear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Then what the fuck are you on about? You either have some self-loathing issues or didn’t communicate your point correctly.

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

"As a black woman ..."

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

You seem nice.