Paraphrasing "Take your alt text, run it through an AI image generator.

[edent@mastodon.social]

Paraphrasing "Take your alt text, run it through an AI image generator. Does it even vaguely match your image? If not, it is bad alt text!"

(A not entirely unserious proposition by @mgifford )

#fosdem #accessibility

[jonhicks@mastodon.social]

@Edent this has actually been a useful aspect of gen AI - it’s a great way to explain how alt text should work that people get

[cadejohnson@toot.cat]

@Edent @mgifford you mean, ". . . run it through an AI image generator and burn a couple hundred watt hours? . . . (a fairly grossly irresponsible suggestion by . . .?"

[edent@mastodon.social]

Counterpoint from @mrchrisadams
#fosdem

[edent@mastodon.social]

@CadeJohnson wow! I had no idea about that. Can you explain some more?

[mrchrisadams@mastodon.social]

@Edent what was a meme is reality

Trial Inference API Extension Example — Firefox Source Docs documentation

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