If anyone needs an endless stream of examples why it's a bad idea to caption your images by carelessly adding an unedited LLM-generated image description without any kind of disclaimer, @HourlyPornhubbedHeathcliff is a GREAT example of this wildly unhelpful practice!

Pick literally any of them I'm sure (and be aware they are captioned with pornhub comments and thus likely to contain NSFW text), but this one just came across my feed and the hallucinations are particularly egregious: https://masto.ai/@HourlyPornhubbedHeathcliff/114813848311864253

Oddly enough, while that particular image/comment is totally SFW, the LLM hallucinated a mildly-NSFW phrase into the description, I'm guessing generated from the scrawled signature.

All this might be hilarious, if it wasn't leaving visually-impaired people frustrated and with very little clue as to what the hell is actually happening, and illustrating what is undoubtedly happening across the web in much more important contexts than silly comic rewrites.

#Accessibility #GenerativeAI #PlausibleSentenceGenerators #ImageDescriptions #LLMs #a11y #BadAccessibility

Watching a show on Amazon Prime and I am getting some really weird Captions. I have captions turned off, but every now and then, Germ translations of written words pop up on the screen. And just now, two Spanish speaking characters are chatting and German subtitles are burned into the video. I turned on Prime's CCs and there are no captions for their conversation. There is for all the English speaking, but not other languages.

#closedcaptions #badaccessibility