Hi!

While I really enjoy seeing many of my fellow man being accommodating to people with disabilities. I find manually transcribing every image I post to be very tiring.

I thought that I could at least use some sort of AI to help with image transcripts, tho, that could probably be better used by the actual person with the disability.

So thats the question, should I skip the transcribing of an image or let an AI do it?

  • MeldrikAEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Not sure you and the OP is on the same page? Or maybe I’m not.

    OP is talking about alternative text for images, for people who can’t see. The alternative text is a description of the image. I’m not sure how you could achieve automated alternative text without AI?

    If you are talking about OCR, even that is AI powered.

    • forestbeasts@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Eh? There’s plenty of non-“AI”-powered OCR, isn’t there? Like, that’s been a thing since long before “AI” slop generators.

      (Like, mayyyybe there’s some kind of machine learning component, but even IF there is, surely you don’t have to run it through a slop generator to get a transcription?)

      • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 hours ago

        Almost all OCR tools use machine learning AFAIK, the commonly used Tesseract OCR software also uses a neural network.

        It certainly isn’t AGI, but AI just means machine learning nowadays.