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@BeAware are you speculating or do you have real world experience in AI research? I’m just asking.

My roommate and I have done some work, as stupid as the subject matter is, with meme identification and alt text updating for the visually impaired here on Mastodon. We use open source models for the identification piece and a simple language model for the description writing. These models work in tandem with each other using custom scripting that reads from a OneDrive where each meme subject is its own folder that also maps to an account on our Mastodon instance.

Now this just scratches the surface of a necessary use for AI. We continue to do our research using every new technique discovered along the way. There is really a lot more that could be done with properly trained models that specialize in one subject, but people are scoffing the whole idea of AI before it has been given a chance.