cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45437770

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Fediverse ALT issue.

Some people are annoyed by posts without Alttext, & others get reminded¹ to add it.

The core question is: How can we improve accessibility?

Proposal: ☑️ Add a user filter to hide media posts without AltTag ☑️ Reduced engagement on hidden posts would encourage adding Alt text ☑️ People who need accessibility wouldn’t have to encounter unlabeled media

If this gets traction, I’ll open a Mastodon GitHub issue (maybe on others too?).

¹ https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113996311493021102

  • lambisio@feddit.clEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    You are somehow interpreting me not seeing the good in AI as if it was the same as less-able people being unworthy of aid? Please, get off your high horse. I never said that. I simply say AI is not the way, or even a way. AI is the solution to an invented problem, being sold as such, when people say “only AI can cope with the scale”, have you stopped to ask, where does the scale come from? And, for that matter, 85% of what people call “AI” is actually just remote operators in Kenya or India, so what is “scaling” is just oppressing more and more people to unworthy work conditions.

    Oh well. You do you. Their goal is to get their victims to fight each other. I’m stopping here.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      You are somehow interpreting me not seeing the good in AI as if it was the same as less-able people being unworthy of aid?

      I provided examples of the good delivered specifically by AI for disabled people, you still continue to dismiss it. This means that either you’re particularly dumb, pretend to be so, or are a bigot. Choose for yourself which one it is.

      I simply say AI is not the way, or even a way. AI is the solution to an invented problem

      Blind people not being able to see unless someone, or an AI, describes the surroundings for them, is an invented problem? You seem to be doubling down on either the bigotry or the idiocy.

      But wait, since you say AI isn’t the way, you surely have another solution in mind. You know you’re free to advocate for that solution instead, without being an asshole toward disabled people.

      when people say “only AI can cope with the scale”, have you stopped to ask, where does the scale come from?

      That video is from 2020. Pray tell, were you also protesting against AI in 2020, or did you finger your ass instead until it’s become fashionable to hate ChatGPT, so you could blindly transfer that hate onto Apple too? Have you ever spent a second to learn that the Neural Engine accelerator for AI functionality was included in iPhones since 2017, or did you just pull your ideas about ‘AI scale’ out of your asshole? Do you even understand what it means when AI processing is done locally on end-user devices, or did three buzzwords about AI hate block the entirety of your feeble reasoning ability?

      And, for that matter, 85% of what people call “AI” is actually just remote operators in Kenya or India

      Or really, please feel free to provide any semblance of proof that Apple’s AI is done by people in Kenya, India or wherever, despite the Neural Engine chip. Be sure especially to highlight how the poor overworked people are able to do sub-second responses to millions of queries every day, with no change in the cadence of quality of the responses.