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Mozilla rolls out first AI features in Firefox Nightly, and theyre actually useful. (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tldr: Theyre adding an opt-in alt text generation for blind people and an opt-in ai chat sidebar where you can choose the model used (includes self-hosted ones)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Can you elaborate? I would love to learn more about the alternative suggestions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Because good alt text needs to be highly context dependant, so you can't automate it. The better alternatives we have right now are crowd-sourced alt text sites, where volunteers may generate descriptions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's plenty of situations where even a contextless generated alt-text is a huge improvement on no alt-text at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You should better read what the blind community thinks about it instead of making blanket assumptions.

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