modulux@helveticablanc Because alt text isn't the limit of it. Automatic image description allows us to take pictures of our environment and get useful, sometimes essential information. There's no reasonable world in which I ask a sighted person to describe any random thing that comes to my mind. The privacy implications also would put me off, for example taking a picture of my potentially messy room and asking an AI where something is, or the state of some device (radiator knobs, etc) is different from (and better than) asking a human.
Jonathan Schofield@modulux One of the things I understand AI is very good at is cleaning ‘dirty’ data and finding links between disparate datasets. It’s only a matter of time before privacy is effectively dead precisely because of AI. Which doesn’t bode well https://overcast.fm/+HiEapwxUk
