Lemmy hates AI.

I’m fully supportive of the accessibility for persons with disabilities, to be clear. It’s ironic though. Does Lemmy’s open source code make it easier for bots to scrape it?

  • tourist@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Also, the alt texts vary in descriptiveness for that exact purpose. They’re meant to be useful for humans, not for training data.

    What would a blind person rather have as the alt text:

    (there are no photos here, for the blind people listening)

    1:

    A cute Alsatian puppy looking into the camera with a dog toy in its mouth

    2:

    A 14 week old black/brown dog sitting on a tiled floor with a synthetic-rubber cuboid-cylindrical-shaped, blue-green-gradient chew toy in its mouth with its eyes and nose poised at a 30° angle towards the photographer’s origin. Each tile on the floor is approximately 1.47m^2 and are a pearlescent shade of off-white. There is an unidentifiable black speck on the first tile in the top left quadrant of the image. The cameraman’s fat finger is covering 1.97% of the bottom right quadrant. Focal length is set to 100mm. Exposure settings appear to be increased. The dog’s genitals are not visible.