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

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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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[-] Templa@beehaw.org 14 points 4 months ago

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

[-] pitbuster@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] pitbuster@lemmy.ml 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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