I honestly enjoy writing good, descriptive alt text. Once you get used to it, it's no longer a chore, rather a fun exercise.
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I honestly enjoy writing good, descriptive alt text. Once you get used to it, it's no longer a chore, rather a fun exercise.
It gives you an opportunity to focus on the image you're sharing, sometimes revealing details you might miss.
It's a great writing challenge as well.
And it's just the right thing to do to help folks who rely on it.
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@stefan
There is a lot of overlap between writing alt-text for images and prompt engineering for generating images using “AI” -
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@dannotdaniel @paninid @stefan it's why ChatGPT is so good at writing alt text, I feel.
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@BeAware @dannotdaniel @paninid I have pretty mixed feeling about using AI for this purpose.
But interestingly, some blind people already rely on it. https://mastodon.social/@botwiki/111477849625070656
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@stefan @dannotdaniel @paninid either I use it that way, or I don't post alt text. I'm ADHD and slightly autistic, I cannot for the life of me, explain the textures on the blades of grass in a picture. The AI can do that or it won't be done.️
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@BeAware @dannotdaniel @paninid Yes, sorry, that wasn't intended as a criticism, just my personal stance.
Carry on!
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@Stefan Bohacek @BeAware :veriweed: @ᴚ uɐᗡ @Sampath Pāṇini I don't have mixed feelings. From my personal experience, and for my own purposes, it just plain sucks. But that's to be expected. It would require extensive pop culture knowledge plus absolutely extreme niche omniscience in my special field. Like, if I've built something in-world, an AI would have to immediately know everything about it.
I've actually had LLaVA describe an image I've described first. Yes, it was an in-world rendering.
In comparison with my own 25,271 characters (no, I'm not kidding, go check the link), LLaVA's 558-character description was vague, it was painfully lacking and incomplete, it didn't explain anything because it had no idea what it was really dealing with, and it was even glaringly wrong in some points. It would not helped anyone understand the image.
I've got my doubts that ChatGPT can do much better than LLaVA. And I've got huge doubts that ChatGPT can produce something more detailed, more informative, more explanatory and more accurate than me from any in-world image I'd post. After all, ChatGPT would only have the picture while I could look around in the virtual world itself and see things that ChatGPT can't see.
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