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1 year agoWriting good alt text is more than just identifying the objects in an image. It requires some understanding of the context around why the image is being included. Harvard provides some great advice for humans to do this well at https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images.
Unless Elon puts Tesla’s FSD team on this problem, it will be many years before AI can do this well. With the FSD team on it, it would only take a decade.
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I looked for a solution to do this with #Mbin ~6 months ago, but couldn’t find anything anyone else had shared. I did find solutions that claimed to work for Lemmy, but I did not try to configure those. I’m a PHP developer building a community site for other PHP developer so Mbin is a better fit for us.
Going to look at this again soon.