Ben Werdmuller on Nostr: I'm skeptical of using AI for alt text generation. The tech is not bad at all about ...
I'm skeptical of using AI for alt text generation. The tech is not bad at all about describing what's in a picture, but I'm unconvinced that it can tell you what's *important* in a picture. Maybe if you fed in the context around it? But also, a human can write an alt text sentence in a minute or two, so is it really worth it?
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