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?
I’d ask someone who needs these transcriptions first. I tend more towards “Nay”. I mean if they want AI transcriptions, I guess they could just run their own AI. And that way they get to choose between human and AI ones. I’m kind of against flooding the internet with AI content as long as the recipients can do it themselves.
That’s a good point but wouldn’t it be preferable to have one AI run one time instead of several of them doing the work again and again?
(Assuming that we’re even okay with AI generated descriptions in the first place which I’m not for reasons I’ve laid out in my other comments but I’m talking hypothetically)
Alternatively, it’s built into the platform. So when someone uploads an image to Lemmy a local AI model does the description.
Edit: Then it could even be marked as AI generated and people could choose to be exposed to it or not.
people think local ai is the panacea, when ai must have a shit-ton of content scraped from the internet, and ~countless hours churning in datacenters, for the model to be produced in the first place