@BeAware Bro, you're fine. You can't control what other people do. That said I for one appreciate the consideration.
But don't beat yourself up if you boost shit that's got no alts
@BeAware Bro, you're fine. You can't control what other people do. That said I for one appreciate the consideration.
But don't beat yourself up if you boost shit that's got no alts
@BeAware Thought I was going to side with him.
Funny little fool; Talks about context but fails to grab the context in his own shitty reply guyism behavior.
Fidiots, all of them. lol
@BeAware It's the anti AI haters who fail to see any value, doing what they do best, Being stupid reply guys thinking they are smart or have some right to talk about things they don't understand.
Nothing angers me quite like people talking for me, thinking they know what I need better than I do.
You keep doing you. Your posts with descriptions never fall on unseeing eyes with me because I can get what the joke or whtever is, or get the important details.
To me, that's a lot more ground covered in accessibility than there was even this time last year. So the haters can just sit down and shut up and let the rest of us have our day for once, because these people literally don't know what it's like to go through life without being able to take in like 80 percent of the details going on around them due to lack of sight or whatever else.
@BeAware The thread I replied to?
I admit I didn't read the entire thread, just the one thing you RT'd and I was like...Uh...
@congusbongus @BeAware @FediTips Not in the slightest.
I use AI all the time for things like reading cooking instructions, describing pictures, even some video descriptions.
If someone feels more comfortable using AI to get that image description so that I might be able to enjoy the content too, then I fully support this.
Also, prompting comes into play. Prompting with something like, "describe this picture to someone who is blind or has a visual impairment," will get the results we usually need.
There are apps like Seeing AI and Be My AI that use custom prompts to extract information from pictures that are basically GPT with custom prompts, really no different than what BeAware here and others do, at least at a basic level.
AI descriptions have opened up sooooo many new doors to all of us with visual disabilities or cognative impairments, and honestly the people who usually complain about it are the people who's lives haven't been impacted for the better thanks to advances in this kind of tech.
@congusbongus @BeAware @FediTips Also, what some people see as needless details, we often see as sighted people taking for granted all those other details.
Example; You're telling me about the dog being cute playing in the grass, but some of those other details might be of interest to me. Is the grass green or dead? Is there a person in the picture too and if so what are they doing?
There's also going too far with it, like going on a Zoom call for class or work or something and person goes, "I'm so-and-so, I am wearing a blue shirt with a picture of a cat with green eyes on the front and my bangs hang over one eye."
Like I don't need to know that. Now if someone else goes, "I like your shirt," then fine, give a description if it comes up. But it's pointless and means nothing to me whether or not your shirt is light blue or dark blue or has a picture of a middle finger unless it's like you said, relevant.
@congusbongus @BeAware @FediTips But why is the dog funny?
I see this a lot where people will post something and be like, "oh, such a cute doggy!" Then for the alt text, it's "A picture of a cute dog," which literally tells me nothing I didn't know.
Why is the dog cute? What is happening in this picture that makes you laugh or say awh?
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@BeAware Damn right.
Your space, do what you want with it!
The rest of us who use alts will appreciate you for the descriptions though.
@BeAware People are strait up dumb. But haters going to hate.
I've gotten so used to so many of you adding alt text/image descriptions that anytime I see some of you who don't I just wanna shake you until you cry, then I wanna keep shaking until all your tears and eyes and everything else falls out so you might understand how annoying it is.
<person> "lol", <Image with no description>
Piss off.
@BeAware I'm sick of the haters.
Keep using GPT and whatever you feel comfortable with. Whoever said that needs to sit down and shut up.
@BeAware Fuck racism, fuck bigotry of any veriety
@BeAware I know. Not disagreeing with you, but yeah. I've seen it used many times against people who never said anything of the sort, then getting reported for racist comments thta they never said.
And of course, a lot of times mods don't really look to see if what is being reported is true, so then you get people booted off forums and the like for saying something shitty when they never said it to begin with.
Racism is one of those triggers these days that will always get a reaction. Sometimes, just being called a racist is more damning than not, even when it's not true because so many people can' bother to check the facts before they pull the trigger.
@BeAware People using the racism card as a weapon to silence other people they don't agree with.
Sadly, a theem all-too common these days.
You have never once said anything racist or shitty that I've ever noticed
@BeAware When you report someone, doesn't it attach the thread or whatever that they are reporting you in? Likecan't someone fucking fact check before pulling the trigger?
Have never reported before, so
@BeAware Who the fuck got that out of you of all people? Seriously!
@BeAware The whole thing.
The dry reply from your end made it funnier.
Like, OP almost seems like that guy who goes to a taco stand to order a hotdog thinking just because he's at a stand that sells food, he'll get the desired food, then blinks in confusion when the guy running the stand smiles back and offers a taco instead.
It's just surreal. lol
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